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WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 The Mexican stuffed pepper
is more than a tasty dish —
it’s a symbol of the country’s
independence. PAGE E4
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LIFESTYLE | FASHION | POP CULTURE | TRENDS | HEALTH | SOCIETY | ADVICE | PUZZLES | HOROSCOPES
Big, bright A LEGACY
and retro styles
Designers has previously revived
many fashions of the 20th
The comedic
agitator
roll out disco century — 1950’s Dior
looks, Asian “new look,” ’80s power
shoulders — and now
shapes and for next spring: the soft,
simple, sensuous revival of
day-glow hues sexy disco style.
Silk and satin were cut
into simple shapes, often
By MICHAEL QUINTANILLA worn off-the-shoulder,
FA S H I O N W R I T E R
Always
N E W YO R K —
sometimes colorfully
printed and shown with
Essential
eagerly anticipated — and
copied — Marc Jacobs
big-brimmed hats last
seen on the French Riviera
Collection
again demonstrated the
staying power of retro
in St. Tropez, the jet-set
playground. underscores
style as Fashion Week
shifted into high gear. HERRERA’S BIG TRIP: stand-up
Get ready to return
to the mid-1970s when
Carolina Herrera chose
Korea as the reference comedian
Bianca Jagger, wearing for her spring collection.
Yves St. Laurent, ruled
Studio 54, the disco
Today such artistic license
requires a very light
Bill Hicks’
epicenter of style. Jacobs touch. Unfortunately,
too many of these looks
duty to
were heavy-handed,
obviously derivative heckle the
of traditional Korean
costumes. Huge hats were status quo
hugely distracting.
So were tricked-up,
tucked, fold-over self-
conscious design
details. Some
silhouettes were
closely based on
the flat-chested
tentlike aikido
gowns of
ancient
Korea.
Still, the
show was GRAHAM HABER
beautiful. A SERIOUS COMEDIAN: Bill Hicks wanted others to see the world as he saw it, his friend Dwight Slade says.
Fabrics were
superb and
luxurious, today, but Hicks’ career
and the By ANDREW DANSBY was well-documented. A
B
E N T E R TA I N M E N T W R I T E R
workmanship new set, Bill Hicks: The
displayed Essential Collection, seeks
exquisite ILL Hicks died in early 1994, but these remain Bill Hicks to both introduce Hicks to
artistry. Colors times. Or perhaps they would have proven too much for the a new audience while also
included comedian and satirist. For the tempestuous tone of much opening up the vaults with
cinnabar, rare material for the older
hibiscus,
of his comedy, it still originated from a feeling of empathy. fans. The set — composed
lime, Hicks railed against all sorts of bullies and cheaters and of two CDs and two DVDs
Please see hypocrites, but pancreatic cancer took him before he attained the — is a fitting portrait of
FASHION,
recognition of a George Carlin or Richard Pryor. the artist with some of his
Page E3 best routines on egocen-
tric pop stars and drugs
MARC “I’m sad that he’s dead, material for me to watch. been deprived of that.” as well as a trove of unre-
JACOBS and I’m also (ticked) off It’s maddening that Bill Oswalt’s not alone. leased material. There is
at him,” comedian Patton Hicks died before O.J., A generation of young footage of Hicks at age 20
Oswalt told me a few years before Monica Lewinski, comedians has been in- performing in Houston.
ago. “It’s selfish of me, but the 2000 election. It’s not fluenced by Hicks. He’s At that point he’d been
it’s like he was supposed fair, because he should’ve not around to pick at the working on routines with
to be around to write more been around. I feel I’ve loose threads of our times Please see HICKS, Page E2
Food’s ‘bad boy’ shows signs of mellowing
Anthony Bourdain’s blunt relatively unknown chef
into the superstar ranks
SUPERSTAR STATUS:
Anthony Bourdain travels
honesty is his trademark of foodie personalities. It the world tasting exotic food
got him a Food Network for his TV show Anthony
Confidential assuming show. And contracts for Bourdain: No
By GREG MORAGO no one would read it. I other food and travel Reservations.
FOOD EDITOR
didn’t have the burden confessionals. Then it got
While writing Kitchen of expectations,” he said. him his signature show,
G E T T Y I M AG E S
Confidential, his warts- “I wasn’t imagining the Anthony Bourdain: No
and-all memoir of the reader. I just got up in the Reservations on the Travel
seamy underbelly of the morning and wrote as fast Channel.
restaurant world, Anthony and as furious as I could. I And through it all, it got
Bourdain said he was just wrote my heart out.” him notoriety as “bad boy
liberated by the very real The overwhelming of cuisine” for his blunt
prospect of failure. success of Kitchen Please see BOURDAIN,
“I wrote Kitchen Confidential launched the Page E4 T R AV E L
CHANNEL
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ON TWO Wednesday, September 15, 2010
VIDEO-GAME REVIEW
Multiplayer shines in Halo: Reach
largely involve evacuating clearly Bungie’s attempt to gie went all out for Reach.
By LOU KESTEN humans and sabotaging win back defectors and re- Gameplay is solid.
A S S O C I AT E D P R E S S
Covenant installations. claim the top spot of Xbox The single-player mode
When Halo 3: ODST was Most of the scenarios in- Live’s most-played list. is engaging and often re-
released last year, the once volve sustained, ground- It offers all the multi- minded me of C.E. (Com-
vibrant Halo universe felt based firefights against player modes that fans bat Evolved) with a dash
exhausted, as though even hordes of aliens. Bungie have come to expect. In of ODST. Though not as
its creators at Microsoft’s also throws in a couple of “Gruntocalypse,” you’re strong as C.E., Reach still
Bungie Studios were bored beautifully executed aerial swarmed by the lowest- easily outshines Halo 2 and
with it. battles — one over an urban level Covenant critters; in Halo 3.
Thankfully, they had skyline, one in outer space the chaotic “Rocketfight,” The big question is — is
one more story in their ar- — that could be the founda- your team is provided an it worth $60 when just last
senal. Bungie may be mov- tions of whatever project unlimited supply of rocket year millions of gamers
ing on to new worlds, but the studio tackles next. launchers. bought ODST? My answer?
Halo: Reach (Microsoft, for Meanwhile, some of If multiplayer mayhem Yes. If you are a Halo fan,
the Xbox 360, $59.99) is a the franchise’s more exas- is your thing, Halo: Reach if you want to see a fitting
more energetic farewell for perating elements remain. is essential. If you’re look- end to the Halo story, if you
the company. Driving a Warthog jeep still ing for a satisfying solo ad- want a great shooter, you
Reach is a prequel. feels awkward. Unlike in, venture, it comes up short. can’t go wrong with this.
G E T T Y I M AG E S Reach itself is a planet, say, Gears of War, there’s Second opinion: It’s Move over, Modern War-
Houston appearance
long mythologized as one no reliable way to take Halo, plain and simple. fare 2, Reach will be mus-
of the last human colonies cover. The action is intense — the cling you for equal time
to fall to the alien Covenant Still, it’s unfair to judge graphics are improved, but among shooter fans.
A
before the events of 2001’s a Halo title simply on the still, it’s Halo, so if you are Look for the full review
RIANNA Huffington will appear in Halo: Combat Evolved. strengths and weaknesses expecting an Uncharted 2 of Halo: Reach on the
Houston at a Progressive Forum event Since we already know that of its solo campaign. Halo experience, keep trucking. Chronicle’s video-game
things aren’t going to end pretty much defined online The most notable dif- blog, Game Hacks at http://
at 7:30 tonight at Wortham Theater well, there’s a sense of fu- console competition at the ferences with Reach are blogs.chron.com/game
Center, 501 Texas. Tickets cost $14-$74; 832- tility about this campaign. beginning of the century, the deep customization op- hacks/
251-0706. For additional information, call You are part of Noble and it’s only recently that tions. From armor and suit
713-664-0020. Team, a group of elite Spar- Activision’s Call of Duty upgrades, to choosing the Staff writer Willie Jefferson
tan troops whose missions has overtaken it. Reach is gender of your player, Bun- contributed to this report.
Started creating routines as a teenager
LOOKING BACK
HICKS: In 1776, British forces
occupied New York City
CONTINUED FROM PAGE E1 but his approach veered siblings were fair game for “He was serious,” he lived past 32. Comedy during the American
a friend for a couple of more toward the philo- routines, but his handling Steve says. “It was fairly Central — both the TV Revolution.
years and seemed to have sophical. The language of those bits revealed a obvious he was marching channel and the CD la-
arrived fully formed. His could be crude, but from tenderness. to a different drum. He bel — has done much to
B I R T H DAY S
style would change over it sprang turns of phrase “I think our parents’ wasn’t going to be an ac- increase the visibility of
the next 13 years, but that framed the world in a friends might have been countant.” comics today. It was still
seemingly from the outset novel way. offended, but our parents Mary adds, “He was al- in its infancy when Hicks Actor Tommy Lee Jones
Hicks was very funny. But Hicks also kept his never were,” Steve says. ways a compassionate per- died. is 64. Movie director Oli-
Hicks was born in routines loose. His moth- “We always knew where son and very soft-spoken. But for a comic who ver Stone is 64. Britain’s
Georgia in 1961, and the er, Mary, points out that he was coming from.” But all those things he bristled at other comedi- Prince Henry of Wales is
family moved around be- he rarely wrote out his After an appearance on talked about, he believed. ans he felt sold out, Hicks 26.
fore settling in Houston routines, relying instead David Letterman’s show, He felt like they needed to is preserved in his pure
when he was 7. He gave on some general notes. his parents received a let- be said so maybe someone lo-fi form. In one routine
JOKES ON US
an early performance at a Interaction with the audi- ter addressed to Hicks. else’s eyes opened to the on Essential he brings up
summer church camp, and ence was crucial. “He opened it and said, problems around us. his father’s objection to
as a teen was working on “He thought that was a ‘Who is this nut?’” Mary “I was just reading his use of profanity. Bob A city girl, seeing a
routines with his friend big part of it,” his brother says. “This man had lam- something he wrote the Hope, his father says, horse being shod, rushed
Dwight Slade. Steve says. “Those little basted Bill for making fun other day; he said he was didn’t need to use it. to her mother and cried,
Hicks started attending revelations that come of his parents.” born old.” “Bob Hope,” Hicks says “Mother, there’s a man out
the Comedy Workshop during the show. ... And Hicks’ family members Hicks found a reverent bluntly, “doesn’t play the there building a horse. I
here while he was still in things could evolve from suggest he was never a audience but not quite (dumps) I play.” just saw him nailing on the
high school. night to night. If he’d writ- cutup, which fits his body the widespread one he feet!”
“He was very good at ten it all down, it would of work. might have cultivated had andrew.dansby@chron.com — ORVILLE McLEAN, Pearland
an early age,” Slade says. lock him into something.”
“I think the reason is “He was fast on his
because he started very feet,” Mary says.
early. By the time of that Hicks also viewed com-
clip in that anthology, he’d edy as something more
been doing it for six, seven elevated than delivering
years. Not traditionally jokes.
working in nightclubs. “His understanding of
When we started at 13, stand-up was that it was
there weren’t comedy a cherished position in
clubs.” society,” Slade says. “The
Slade says Woody Allen comic was looked to as
was a key early influence. someone who challenged
Hicks wrote a lot of jokes popular belief by ridicul-
early on, but he and Slade ing it. …
began doing two-person “He wanted to capti-
comedy routines. vate people. The reason
Hicks attended Strat- he didn’t write was that
ford High School, but the he wanted to convince
family moved to Arkansas, people. He really wanted
where he graduated. people to see the world
There was a period as he saw it. … ‘You don’t
in Los Angeles before he just have to laugh at my
moved back to Houston comedy, you have to get
in the early 1980s and my point of view exactly.’
fell in with the Outlaw … That created lot of ten-
Comics who frequented sion and drama in his act,
the workshop. Among which translates to humor
them was Sam Kinison, if done properly.”
whose inimitable style The flip side to Hicks’
was essentially an id run more topical material
rampant. Hicks harnessed were routines dealing with
some of that franticness, his family. His parents and
KAZH transitioning
from Spanish to English
Ellis said Channel 57
By DAVID BARRON will announce its program-
TV WRITER
ming schedule within a
KAZH (Channel 57) week. He said he has no
will switch from Spanish- firm plans yet for local
language to English pro- programming but added,
gramming on Sept. 27, the “Local as you can be is
company that manages the good in the television busi-
station said Monday. ness.”
Channel 57 is owned KNWS (Channel 51)
by New World TV Group and KTBU (Channel 55)
and managed by Titan are independent stations
Broadcast Management, an airing English-language
Atlanta company founded programming in Houston.
by former Turner Broad-
casting executive Bert david.barron@chron.com
Ellis and Dan Sullivan. It
was one of several stations
purchased by New World
last year when its former
owner, Pappas Telecasting,
declared bankruptcy.
Ellis said Titan decided
to switch from Spanish
to English because of the
larger pool of potential
advertising revenue for
English-language stations
in Houston.
“The English stations
are competing for $400
million and the Spanish
stations for $80 million,”
Ellis said. “So the math is
not good. We were compet-
ing for a small portion of a
smaller market.”
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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Abit ofTuscany atTootsies Getting ready for Tejano awards gala
By DOUGLAS BRITT
F
SOCIETY WRITER
ASHION-FORWARD
S
supporters of the UPPORTERS of the
American Heart As- Tejano Center for
sociation helped luxury Community Con-
retailer Romana Correale cerns held a kickoff recep-
celebrate the U.S. launch tion for the annual Willie
of its Italian Velasquez Hispanic Excel-
handbag line lence Awards Gala, which
at Tootsies, is slated for Oct. 29 at the
the bags’ Omni Houston Hotel. The
exclusive nonprofit offers education,
Houston re- social and health services,
tailer. and community develop- A
Douglas Hosted ment initiatives for low- DAVE ROSSMAN PHOTOS
Britt by Mary income families.
Making the scene: Dis-
Ann McKei-
than, Trish 1 trict Clerk Loren Jackson,
Morille and Sarah G A R Y F O U N TA I N P H O T O S Houston Police Depart-
Correale, the ment Chief Charles Mc-
1. Host committee
trunk show, members Mary Ann Clelland, Roel Medina,
dubbed “An McKeithan, from left,
Evening in Tus- A. Patrick Castillo, from left,
Trish Morille and Loren Jackson and Noemi
cany,” featured
the unveiling
Sarah Correale
2. Lori Knop, left, and
Knop
Medina B
of a limited edi- B. Mary Closner, from left,
Megan Fazio Marcello Marini and Pelusa
tion of 90 ostrich, napa Daniel Morales, Blanca
3. Bain Pearson, left, Marini
and croc handbags with Gomez, Judge Armando V.
and Lara Bell C. HPD Chief Charles
heart-shaped handles. Ten Rodriguez, Leo Vasquez.
4. Laura Smith, left, and McClelland, left, and Dennis
percent of the night’s pro-
ceeds benefited the AHA.
Vanessa Lubojasky 2 Carter douglas.britt@chron.com C
Transported to Tuscany:
Connie and Peter Salva- cenzo Correale, Jim Pear-
tore, Philamena Baird, son, Brenna Croom and
Laura Davenport, Sidney
Faust, Bain Pearson, Elsie
Eckert, Kathi Rovere, Vin-
Rebecca Kramer.
douglas.britt@chron.com
Checking out the butterflies
T
HE term “social archived pieces.
butterfly” took Chairs Stacy Soefer and
on a new meaning Lili Gordon chose Deutsch
when some of H-town’s & Deutsch as the mingle
leading do-gooders flut- spot. Maker’s Mark cock-
tered and tail concoctions made for
flirted for a lively time alongside the
the unveil- diamonds and drawings.
ing of the GARY FOUNTAIN Calender purchasers
2011 But- CHAIRS: Stacy Soefer, left, included Leisa Holland-Nel-
terfly Project and Lili Gordon son, Marc Sharpe, Nancy
Calendar. Dinerstein and Punkin
Ben- flies that have been created Hecht. Don’t fret if you
3 Lindsey
Love efiting the from children missed the flock; the cal-
Holocaust across the globe. enders can be purchased
PHOTOS: See more from Museum of The museum through the museum.
these and other events at Houston, the calender dis- hopes to amass
chron.com/life 4 plays multicolored butter- 1 million of these lindsey.love@chron.com
FASHION: A little whimsy from Betsey Johnson
CONTINUED FROM PAGE E1 (unlike the originals) at 10 p.m. it meant busi- A DANDY LIVING DOLL: eled pin inside and stuck
olive, black and jasmine and cut above the ankle ness. But 80 percent of New York-based fashion it on my lapel. I elaborat-
white. Silks were printed (instead of gathered the guests — displaying writer Patrick MacDonald ed my clothes from that
with Asian motifs and there.) their balancing skills on is a front-row fixture, day forward.”
sometimes hand-painted Designers as diverse stilettos while pretend- attired in flamboyant, DUDE ’TUDE: Trends
with botanicals. as Alexander Wang and ing to be unimpressed peacock-hued duds and don’t just happen on the
BETSEY’S TOUR DE Patrick Evell are endors- by Christina Ricci, Angie artfully applied makeup. runways. Sometimes they
FARCE: The industry’s ing this retro shape. Harmon and a host of re- He’s also adept at self- erupt under the fashion-
most energetic and glam- Ervell updated the effect ality D-listers — were still promotion; MacDonald is able tents.
orous granny, Betsey John- successfully with a four- milling and mingling. touting a new paper-doll Dudes with cool at-
son, 68, rode a day-glow tuck mock pleat for young With four minutes book, Four Famous Dan- titudes are adopting two
pink bike and turned a men. until showtime errant dies, by Jim Howard ($12, signature styles: a bow tie
cartwheel to end her show FASHION ON THE guests continued to party Paper Studio Press). “It’s and rolled-up trousers.
at Lincoln Center. The CLOCK: Fashion shows and pose on the runway for dandies in training,” Once the province of
clothes were more than fa- never start on time. A despite pleas from clock- McDonald says. nerdy professors, bow ties
miliar: bustiers and bras- 30-minute delay is the watching QVC staffers. It features his likeness are keepers — just don’t
sieres, corsets and masses norm, but so far many Two minutes to go: a final along with classic dandies clip them on.
of petticoats, stripes, shows are ticking toward appeal in deeper, louder Beau Brummell, Oscar Exposed ankles are the
polka dots, floral prints — 40. voices and lots of hand Wilde and the Duke of other sign that a guy is in
all in garish bright colors. They should take a cue gesturing, followed by a Windsor. the know, all the better to
The audience loves Betsey. from cable shopping giant mad dash as guests, click- “I was 5 years old reveal him as a sockless
The designer shared home QVC. Forget air kissing, ing their heels like a pack when I became a dandy,” style-setter.
movies of her daughter schmoozing and preening of high-strung Chihua- MacDonald said. “I
and grandkids, who were — when QVC went live huas, scampered across opened a Cracker Jack mquintanilla@express- G E T T Y I M AG E S
in the audience, proud of from Rockefeller Center the catwalk. box that had a bird-enam- news.net CAROLINA HERRERA
the ageless matriarch with
blond Raggedy Ann exten-
sions and crazy costumes.
REHEATED LEFTOVERS:
Next spring’s hottest
must-have may already be
hiding in the back of your
closet: those 1980s Z.
Cavaricchi vintage pants
with multiple pleats, full
at the top and tapered to a
close ankle fit.
Next spring’s versions
for women and men are
worn low on the hips
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Stuffed chiles dish a symbol of Mexico’s independence
Mexican flag. independence, which also nial this year. In addition carnitas and topped with
By GREG MORAGO Then there’s the his- is around the time that to traditional Chiles en a red sauce; and Mexico
FOOD EDITOR
tory: At common citation pomegranates are in sea- Nogada, Richards also is City, a green sauce enchi-
To put it simply, Chiles credits the invention of son. It essentially has be- serving vegetarian and lada) served with rice and
en Nogada is a Mexican the dish to the Augustin- come a patriotic dish and chicken versions of the beans for $14 throughout
stuffed pepper. But the ian nuns of Santa Maria a culinary celebration of dish, as well as Chiles en September.
dish, like the poblano convent in Puebla, Mexico, independence. Nogada soup and a Nogada HUGO’S: Chef Hugo Or-
pepper used for the prepa- who created the dish to PICO’S MEX-MEX: Lo- mousse. See Picos.net. tega also is serving Chiles
ration, is crammed with honor Agustin de Iturbide cally, Pico’s Mex-Mex Res- SYLVIA’S ENCHILADA en Nogada as a lunch and
symbolism. who was stopping in Pueb- taurant (5941 Bellaire) is KITCHEN: To mark the dinner special this month.
First there’s the flag: la in 1821 after signing the hosting a Chiles en Nogada bicentennial of the Mexi- The dish also will be on
bearing the colors of the Treaty of Cordoba, which Festival throughout Sep- can Revolution, Sylvia’s the Diez y Seis de Septi-
Mexican banner, Chiles en established Mexico’s in- tember. Chef-owner Ar- Enchilada Kitchen (12637 embre celebration din-
Nogada are green poblano dependence from Spain a naldo Richards said the Westheimer and 6401 ner Thursday, which will
peppers stuffed with pica- decade after the first battle festival is dedicated to Woodway) is offering a feature at Mexican buffet
dillo that are covered in a cry of Mexican indepen- Felipe Angeles, “who was Mexican Flag Enchilada ($35) with live entertain-
white walnut sauce over dence (Sept. 16, 1810). my grandmother’s first Platter, featuring three ment, dancers and food
G A R Y F O U N TA I N which red pomegranate Let’s not forget tradi- cousin and who played a enchiladas (Sarita, made and drink specials. Hugo’s
SAMPLE: Arnaldo Richards seeds are strewn. Green, tion: The dish is often major role” in the Mexi- with squash and corn and is at 1600 Westheimer.
shows off Chiles en Nogada white and red together on prepared around the time can Revolution of 1910, topped with a cream sauce;
from Pico’s Mex-Mex. one dish, as colorful as the when Mexico marks its which marks its centen- Hidalgo, filled with pork greg.morago@chron.com
BOURDAIN: Enjoys the world through Travel Channel show
CONTINUED FROM PAGE E1
assessments and take-no-
prisoners observations
the luxury of not having a
reputation to lose. I have
the luxury of honesty. I
entitled class of dottering
old farts who currently
occupy the top tier of food
ANTHONY
BOURDAIN A: I don’t know. I think
it almost doesn’t
matter. Some shows did
only people I care about
are chefs and cooks. If I
hurt a hardworking chef’s
of the culinary world and don’t give a … . Hopefully, journalism. It’s a pretty The Society for the make us better cooks. or cook’s feelings, that’s
its stars. It’s a reputation that’s refreshing. I like to appalling bunch of bent, Performing Arts Julia Child made a whole something I don’t want to
he may not continue think I’m honest. I’d like angry people who despise presents the star of No country better. I think do. I’m not looking to hurt
to relish, but one that to the think that to the their subjects and hate Reservations in its New Molto Mario was terrific. feelings, but at the same
fits him like his best degree I’m compromised their jobs and have been Now Series. I know it improved my time, what the lions of the
weathered leather jacket. by my associations with going through the motions When: own cooking. Anything food profession think of
It’s that at times chefs, I wear my loyalties for a long time. that raises expectations me I really could care less.
shocking honesty — as on my sleeve. I don’t hide Where: about a meal, informs
well as an unbridled love
for culinary discovery
them.
Qwill be marking
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people, makes people
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: know this may 100 episodes of No
Reservations. Did you
thing for society. I like
Top Chef — obviously —
of pages describing
eating pho in Hanoi. It’s
recent book, Medium but where do you come think your world travels I’ve been on the show a beautiful writing about
Raw: A Bloody Valentine down on food bloggers would get this far? world. I like the putting couple of times. Even at a dish that obviously
to the World of Food and
the People Who Cook
(Ecco, $26.99), offers fans
in terms of helping/
hurting restaurants and
adding to the discourse
A : I expected to be
canceled within
months. I never expected
together of the show, the
conceiving of what it’s
going to look like. I like
its very worst, the level of
contestant is very high. I
hate the production values
moves you. Houston has
pretty good pho. Will
you be eating any while
further adventures with a of good food overall? to get a show to start telling stories, and I like of Iron Chef, but the you’re here?
foodie rock star, albeit one
who has mellowed (well,
sort of) with age.
A : I think it doesn’t
matter what I think or
what anyone thinks. This
with, much less a second
show, much less to make
television where I wanted,
the additional tools that
television gives you to
tell a story. It’s intensely
contestants are very good.
I hate Hell’s Kitchen. A : Yes it does. If I get
a meal in Houston, it
would be Mai’s.
Bourdain will visit
Houston Monday to talk
is the way of the world.
There has been a huge
the way I wanted. I’m
amazed by it and very
satisfying to me to make
something with a lot Qfor your brutal
: You are celebrated
Q: It burnedreally
down.
about Medium Raw. We
talked with him about
power shift in restaurant
criticism. It has moved to
grateful. of different parts and
working with a lot of
honesty. But what does
it take to be that honest A
: I was
looking forward
food writing, his culinary
travels and his penchant
the Internet and bloggers
and the websites. And Qmost about the
: What do you enjoy talented people. That
I have the world as my
about your opinions
— is it hard for you
to that. It was one of
the most authentic
for stirring the pot: that’s the way it is. I feel show? playground to do this, I’m to write sometimes Vietnamese meals I’ve
Qwrite that you areyou
: In Medium Raw
for my for my colleagues
who complain that a few A : I like that I’ve been
allowed to see so
living a little boy’s dream. cruel things, or do you
consider it essential to
had in America. She
brought me out a durian
snarky bloggers can hurt much. I have a restless
Q:foodthe subjectyou
On of what you do? at the end of the meal.
“the very picture of the
jaded, overprivileged
foodie.” So why do
a restaurant early on and
can really kill the buzz.
But that said, I can hardly
mind. I’ve always been
curious about stuff. I’ve
always read a lot. I’m
shows, do
watch them? What do
you think of all these
A : I don’t think about
it. I blurt stuff
out honestly. I’m not
From my limited time in
Houston, I’ve come to
believe it has some of the
foodies still hunger for imagine that this brave interested in people cooking competitions? wrestling with whether best Vietnamese in the
your opinion? new world of bloggers can and other cultures. So Is it necessarily making or not I should say country, if not the best.
A : Um, I don’t know
that they do. I have
be worse than the agenda-
driven, overprivileged,
I’m satisfying my own
curiosity about the
us better home cooks?
What are we learning?
something. I say it, and I
regret it later. Really, the greg.morago@chron.com
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DEAR ABBY
Drunken indiscretion threatens relationship
Dear Abby: don’t want and he made me go over girls agree not to date men
I have gotten myself to repeat and ask Eric’s friend if another girl has her sights
into a “pickle,” and I don’t it. It won’t Eric is gay. His friend told set on — theoretically, be-
know how to get out of it. “hurt” him; me he is straight. cause there is the possibil-
I rent a house with two it will let Eric lives in my neigh- ity that he can be snagged
roommates (both males) him know borhood, and we became if there’s no interference.
and have always followed where good friends. He has asked But in a case like this,
a strict rule of not dating Abby things stand, me out, and I would say where a gay person “ap-
roommates or co-workers. and it’s im- yes, except that Joey said preciates” someone who
One night, I came home portant that he get that he likes him. Joey has nev- is straight, the chance is
after having a few drinks message. If you do remain er spoken to Eric and only remote to nonexistent. Out
with friends. One of my roommates, maintain some likes him in an “appreciat- of consideration for Joey’s
roommates was up, and distance — and don’t come ing” sense. And of course, feelings, talk with him
we started talking. Then home “pickled” again, there’s the fact that Eric about this. I’m sure he will
he started kissing me. I because you know what isn’t gay. appreciate your concern
wasn’t thinking clearly, could happen if you do. What should I do? Does for his feelings — and give
and didn’t object when he the “girl code” apply to you his OK.
trotted me off to my room. Dear Abby: your gay friends, too?
I do like him, but only I am a girl in high — CONFLICTED www.DearAbby.com
as a friend. There are no school and have a friend, in the South DEAR ABBY
sparks for me as there are “Joey,” who is gay. Joey P.O. Box 69440
Los Angeles, CA 90069
for him. I don’t want this saw another guy, “Eric,” Dear Conflicted:
to happen again, but I who he thought was cute, With the “girl code,” U N I V E R S A L P R E S S S Y N D I C AT E
don’t want to hurt him ei-
ther. In an ideal world, I’d
like to remain friends and
roommates, not lovers. Do
you have any suggestions?
— CAN’T BELIEVE I BROKE MY
RULE in Florida
Dear Can’t Believe:
Yes, I do. You need to
quit drinking or institute
another “rule” that you’ll
stop at two.
Inform your amorous
roommate that in the cold
sober light of day you re-
gret what happened and
HINTS FROM HELOISE
Difference between sea salt and table salt
Dear Readers: growing in added (iodine, dextrose,
Do you know the dif- the general etc.) to table salt, it may
ference between sea salt population. shorten the life of the
and regular table salt? Can You can buy product. Iodized table salt
you substitute one for the table salt has a shelf life of about
other? The answers to that doesn’t five years, under normal
these “salty” questions have iodine conditions, in a dry and
are below: Heloise or dextrose cool location.
Table salt is mined added. If you have never tasted
and contains 99.9 percent Sea salt comes from the sea salt, visit an organic
sodium chloride, and sea. Normally, sea salt can or large grocery store that
during processing most be used in place of table sells products in bulk.
minerals and iodine are salt; however, sea salt — HELOISE
removed. Iodine and dex- isn’t standardized, and
trose are added to some therefore, it may vary in
brands, which are labeled taste and purity. The key Heloise@Heloise.com
“iodized.” Iodine was “flavor” in all sea salt is HELOISE
added in the late 1920s sodium chloride. P.O. Box 795000
San Antonio, TX 78279-5000
to help thyroid function Salt doesn’t expire,
and to keep goiters from but when other items are K I N G F E AT U R E S S Y N D I C AT E
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