Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain brings his travel channel show to Detroit, Hamtramck

Writer and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain brought his acclaimed Travel Channel show “No Reservations” to Detroit and Hamtramck for an upcoming episode.Excerpt:”I’m not interested in places where we sell cheeseburgers to each
other,” Bourdain says. “I’m interested in places where people make
things, and where mom-and-pop businesses grow up around those
businesses to feed the people who make the things.”Many are
immigrant families who open up restaurants to feed other immigrants
from their own countries, “and Detroit has a lot of that,” he adds.If
one thing impressed him about the people he met here, he said, it was
their character and sense of humor, “even when there doesn’t seem to be
much to laugh about.”Read the entire article here.

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Writer and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain brought his acclaimed Travel
Channel show “No Reservations” to Detroit and Hamtramck for an upcoming
episode.

Excerpt:

“I’m not interested in places where we sell cheeseburgers to each
other,” Bourdain says. “I’m interested in places where people make
things, and where mom-and-pop businesses grow up around those
businesses to feed the people who make the things.”

Many are
immigrant families who open up restaurants to feed other immigrants
from their own countries, “and Detroit has a lot of that,” he adds.

If
one thing impressed him about the people he met here, he said, it was
their character and sense of humor, “even when there doesn’t seem to be
much to laugh about.”

Read the entire article here.

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