Anthony Bourdain – Farmer’s Market in San Francisco
September 1, 2010 by MrAuthor
Filed under Food & Drink
Tony visits the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco, where he samples blue cheese and a hearty plate of tamales. New episodes of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations air Mondays at 10PM, only on Travel Channel. www.travelchannel.com
I’m not a vegetarian but I eat a LOT of veggies and not much meat. Vegetarians aren’t sissies though, just people who don’t want to eat meat for all kinds of reasons.
I agree with you that we eat all kinds of food here and it’s the most diverse little city in the US for sure.
Tony needs to get a clue – you would think he would already know all this, so maybe he was just being obnoxious in a fake way instead of his usual genuine way.
At least in San Francisco it’s a lot easier to find local, organic, sustainably farmed and humanely raised meat products, which as it turns out, isn’t much more expensive than purchasing factory-farmed hormone-pumped meat that travelled thousands of miles across the U.S. to arrive at a local supermarket shelf. It is possible to be a consumer-conscious omnivore.
I agree he didnt’ do SF any justice though.
Hey Judy! I was cruising the main videos and look who I find ranting… you go, girl.
This made me so hungry!
Hey melo – good to see you here. Tony should come back to SF and let me take him to some great vegetarian places. His whole meat-eating, gin-guzzling jerk persona is getting awfully old. He had a kid at 50 and stopped smoking, so maybe he should think about cutting down on his other bad habits, like eating tons of really nasty meat produtcts and drinking like a maniac, if he wants to live long enough to see his daughter grow up!
He’s worse than Rachael Ray and that Lousiana women with the big bluish wig that loves butter, but I kinda thought it was fun to watch him look all loaded at the end of his shows. When he went to Brazil he was purple and wanted a nap, haha!
Sheesh, he had a kid at 50??! Yeah, things might change now.
I kinda see sarcasm in this segment, but maybe if I lived in SF I’d see it differently.
Now I know who’s gonna give me referrals on vegetarian places when I visit SF. Yum.
my dad is the man that takes his order of tamales =]
$9.00 for a tamale plate and he calls that value? I guess in San Francisco where the average income is over 80K/year, that is considered a value meal. He needs to go to some of the Mexican tacqueria in Texas and get an authentic down to earth Mexican tamale that will keep one wanting more. Love the show and love San Fran.
Get some Pozole from a roach couch and Coke in a toll GLASS bottle ice cold. So good!
I’d like to state that I’m an SF native. To Judywatt and Mootopia, I feel that your comments reinforce the stereotype that San Francisco is nothing but smug rich hippies. In this episode Anthony was trying to show the world, that there is more to San Francisco than smug hippies.
Furthermore, Anthony was not dissing the sustainable organic food movement. He was merely pointing out the fact that most of that great organic stuff is mostly available to the bourgeoisie and not the proletariat.
Cleveland steamer?! bahahahahaha omg, I cannot believe he said that. Yet another reason I love him.
that’s probably the single filthiest thing I’ve heard come out of Tony’s mouth.
how much is a tamale plate in Texas?
Banjo music? GET OUTA THERE TONY!!!!
Standard of living is different there. For example, if you worked at Blockbuster as a cashier in SF you would be paid 12$, that said, a single large pizza from pizza hut would set you back 20 bucks.
A designer taco jajajaja!
Tony visits The City? Doesn’t matter what he would ever say, we natives know we got a good thing…
agree, i can get better tamales in LA for half the price!
wtf that 9 dollar? come to LA. youll get 3 of those for like 6 bucks
@judywatt i live in seattle where theres also the smug better than you vegetarian all soy crap prius driving attitude are the embodiment of that.
ANTHONY COME TO OC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Urgh, California. Ew.
“cool, free stuff” hahaha.. that’s how I think:)