Anthony Bourdain talks Medium Raw, Madison dining, food politics, and more

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We're seeing it. We're seeing Glenn Beck coming out against Michelle Obama's lunch initiative. Like it's our God-given right to eat ourselves to death. If anyone should want to be concerned about this, it'd be the Tea Partiers. My God, what about our state of military readiness? If you posed the school lunch initiative in a framework of patriotism and preparing our generation to fight the alien hordes, it might be more appealing to the Tea Partiers.

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I try to drink the local beer wherever I go, but I think there's a real need to check yourself. I mean, good beer is great, and it's nice to be proud of your local beer, and even nicer to be proud of your local craft beer. But if you're snorting at people for drinking the wrong beer... You're just as bad as a wine snob if you're snorting at people. I drink Heineken all the time. It's a decent utility beer. I see good beer as a birthright in the best of possible worlds. I just don't take it that seriously. I like a hamburger too, you know? I'm not going to sneer at anybody for not having foie gras with every meal.

I have two items on my rider when I do these public speaking things. One is the music that plays before, while people are filling up the theater. I don't want to hear Paul McCartney out there. And the other is having some local beer in the dressing room.

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