Well-known chef Anthony Bourdain has never been shy about hiding his true feelings, and in an interview with Atlanta Magazine this past summer, he held absolutely nothing back when it came to fellow Food Network celebrity chefs like Guy Fieri, Ina Garten, and Alton Brown.
"The minute that you become a father, certain truths become immediately obvious to you. The first second you see your daughter's head corkscrew out of the womb and open her eyes, they are pretty much saying 'Lose the Ramones shirt.'...So I've made some adjustments in my life," Bourdain, 59, told the magazine about fatherhood. "So I sort of feel in a heartfelt way for Guy [Fieri]. I wonder about him. He's 52 years old and still rolling around in the flame outfit...What does he do? How does Guy Fieri de-douche?"
Fieri in particular didn't take these jabs lightly, and he said what he needed to about the chef who has publicly talked about him in a negative way on several different occasions, in a recent nterview with GQ. "I don't like him making fun of people, and I don't like him talking s--t. And he's never talked s--t to my face," Fieri told the magazine. "I know he's definitely gotta have issues, 'cause the average person doesn't behave that way."
"It's not that I'm not open to the reality that the food world was like this from a few people's perspective," he continued. "It's just, 'What are you doing? What is your instigation? You have nothing else to f--king worry about than if I have bleached hair or not?' I mean, f--k."
This chef feud has been going on for quite some time, too. Back in 2012, during an appearance in Houston, the "No Reservations" host described Fieri as, "If Ed Hardy f--ked a juggalo," according to Houston Culture Map. "How is Fieri de-douched?" he added. "Does he turn down the flames on his sleeves sloooowly?"
Bourdain doesn't see this as mockery, but instead some innocent and light-hearted comedy. "I tell jokes about Guy Fieri," he explained to People. "The day you can't tell jokes about Guy Fieri, comedy as we know it is dead. I tell jokes about those guys; it's what I do."
