Cooks Tour Uncensored

[=Mark]

I enjoyed the book, and the series so far, but can't help feeling that the most entertaining portions of the show never made it past the cutting room floor.  I figure that in covering their legal backsides the TV Food Network had you sign the rights to any of the peripheral material over to them.

That being said, do you figure that a DVD of the more entertaining outtakes would ever be released?  Most of these decisions are driven by $$$, and I figure this would definately be a popular selection in the growing food media market.  What better way to squeeze more cash out of the franchise...  Any thoughts?

[bourdain]

I doubt any of it will ever see the light of day. The bloody stuff..the pig-fisting..the vomiting..the street kids in Phnom Penh and East LA and Vietnam and Mexico looking at the lens and chanting (as prompted) "Emeril Isa MY BITCHA!!"

I regret the likelyhood that I'll never see all the gorgeous "B-Roll" essentially endless hours of lush, atmospheric scenery--in Cambodia and Vietnam for instance that I would love to have--and see--but would probably be of little interest to anyone but me.  There are definitely plenty of mostly humiliating "comedy moments" somewhere-but probably best left unseen. Me. drunkenly singing Tony Bennett's Rags To Riches to the VC...the producer jumping naked into the ice in Russia--his testicles instantly shrinking to pignole size while he screamed "Don't shoot my dick! Don't shoot my dick!!" And Zamir and me off camera yelling "Don't worry. It's gone." I think he destroyed that tape--it would have been on the internet by now if the editors had seen it. To their credit--Food Net actually called for very few cuts I know about--most were done by the production company--and I frankly was too beat, too tired, too exhausted and too lazy to fight for inclusion of more blood or more profanity...I saved any juice I had for inisting on a much longer French Laundry segment--and a general refusal to "get happy' when I was in fact miserably chawing on iguana for instance. Other than the portentious narration (What Was I Thinking?) during the title sequence--and a few other low moments or instances where I was just too beat to care when voice over deviated from the text of earlier transcribed off the cuff on scene rants..I'm pretty proud of the show on balance