1. You’re at a magazine rack and can only pick three magazines. Which ones do you pick?
Lucky Peach would definitely be one … The New Yorker … I’m going to go with MOJO.
2. If your television only aired three shows, which three would you want?
They change. Right now, Breaking Bad … Archer … Justified.
3. What has been your strangest fan encounter?
A guy who jumped up onstage, dropped his pants and revealed a life-sized tattoo of my face next to his nut sack. … It happened twice. Same guy. It was even weirder — it was like, me, Eric Ripert and Morimoto, all life-sized on his thigh. I got the place of honor next to his testicles.
4. When was the last time you felt like crying?
Every time I see the movie When We Were Kings, with Muhammad Ali boxing George Foreman in Zaire. I cry like a baby from beginning to end of that film. To me, Muhammad Ali is like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson — so to see him at his peak, his youngest and most dangerous, is to see this most amazing … I cry like a baby every time I see that film.
5. What bores you?
Sameness. If I’m doing the same thing I did last week — even if what I did last week was really well received and successful, I’m bored already. I’m looking to undermine and subvert whatever I did last week. I’m just looking to do something different next week. Sameness.
6. If you had to eat one thing every day for the rest of your life, what would it be?
High-test sushi. High-test Japanese. I would have a great sushi chef making me terrific sushi, and maybe a yakitori chef … I’d eat great Japanese food for the rest of my life.
7. Where are you going for the holidays? Any plans?
Holidays? It’s all about home. I’m a very traditional guy — turkey and stuffing, and take my daughter to look at the shop windows on Fifth Avenue and do a New York Christmas. Home for the holidays — that’s where to be.
Celebrated chef, noted author and traveling gourmand Anthony Bourdain recently added a new series to his workload that has Bourdain taking viewers to must-eat locales they can easily access if they only have a day or so in a destination location. The Layover airs Mondays on Travel Channel.
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