OH phooofy!

The only thing Southern about Bourdain is his @SSHOLE! While I do not like Paula Deen's FAKE @SS southern accent? I sure as hell would rather eat her cooking than the PANSY CHEF'S anyday!

Anthony, if your newest/latest MUCH YOUNGER wife is kicking your SAGGING B@LLS to the curb don't get all huffy puffy with the rest of us BE A MAN and put your BIG GIRL PANTY'S ON AND GET OVER YOURSELF!

I'm not a fan of Deen's show and I do like Bourdain's show quite a bit but Deen's response is classy, kudos to her for not stirring the pot so to speak.

Anyone who's watched No Reservations knows that Tony Bourdain has a caustic sense of humor. Anyone who's watched Paula Deen knows that her cooking would give anyone heart failure in the long run. He's probably not far off. She might be a wonderful person and her food delicious, but it's definitely not healthy. He's not attacking her character, but her product.

I think Deen confused Bourdain with Andrew Zimmern (eating still-beating hearts and cobra recta), but Bourdain has always been a bit of a boor. Thinks he's Kerouac, but tries too hard with the "hard-boiled edgy former chef" routine.

While I think Deen is a decent-enough cook, it is her personality that makes her show watchable. I do not believe that "butter makes it better" (being a heart patient), but she is the queen of comfort food.

Rachael Ray never claimed to be a chef, and neither did Sandra Lee, but they're popular enough to some. There's obviously room for their type of entertainment and Bourdain's show without Bourdain being a d*** about it. I find Sandra Lee and Guy Fieri unwatchable, but rather than trash them I change the channel.

I really don't like what Food Network has become. They've gone from being a network about cooking to yet another reality network (and they've created a "new" cooking network on premium cable). Sounds like the MTV/VH1 formula again. I've found some interesting cooking shows up at the high end of the cable band (I think it is called the Create or Live Well Channel). Rick Bayless, among others. Maybe not as edgy as Tony Bourdain, but far more watchable.

I love Paula and met her a few years ago - sweet as peach cobbler. Bourdain is a pompus arse!

Bourdain is very sarcastic and at times arrogant. I think it is part of his act. Bourdain is Parmigianino Reggiano cheese. Paula Deen is Wal-Mart cheese. I grew up with country cooking and lots of fatback and butter that will make anything taste good. I enjoy Bourdain and his cultured and historic taste. This is probably a publicity stunt to help both of them sale books and improve show ratings. They are probably laughing all the way to the bank together!

Anthony Bourdain is trying to stir up a fracas to keep his name in the spotlight. The rest are cooks and he's a what?

Saying nasty things about Food Network and its stars is now part of Bourdain's shtick since he moved over to Travel Channel. And when he was in Namibia, he did have to eat the end of some beast's alimentary canal. Since it was in the desert, it wasn't cleaned first and he has since then complained about how it was the worst thing he'd ever had to eat--and then smile and thank his hosts who had shared what was to them a decent morsel.

Anthony Bourdain's show is very good. I enjoy it. I dislike his comments about the others, just down right disrespectful. I'm sure his sponsors weren't pleased. Bourdain speaks his mind but in this case he probably went a bit too far. Paula Deen is TV Food Network royalty. Her fan base probably is about as loyal as they get. Rachel Ray is wonderful although it takes me about 1 1/2 hours to do one of her 30 minute meals. One day she had on this kind of like tank top and everytime she would stir the pasta, the girls would just jiggle and jiggle and it was like that day, the cleavage cam was focused on her chest instead of the move. It was inspiring to say the least. The "captcha" field frightens me.

I get a kick out of Bourdain, but you have to take him with a grain of salt.

Bourdain's a goof. What benefit does he get other than trying to be significant, dissing the queen of butter? Come on Tony, she's an easy target, you used to be witty and fresh, now you're just tired.

Deen's food is heart attack on a plate. She is dangerous . She makes fast food look like health food. Just call her Butter Deen.

Me and the Wife play a Game, everytime Paula says "Yawwwwwwl". Somebody has to take a Drink.

Lots of (often very funny) insights to this food fight at foodnetworkhumour.com

If Ms. Deen's cooking is a heart attack on a plate, so be it. Dangerous? To who? My great grandfather and great grandmother lived to their late 90s eating all that "unhealthy" stuff. It's not your problem. Last time I checked, this was a free country. What you eat is your business. What I eat is mine. Eating what you enjoy and being happy is far more important than stressing over every morsel. Tell you what, you go ahead and eat all that "healthy" crap that no one can pronounce. I'll take everything Paula puts on the table...deal? Oh and BTW, I'm a 48 year-old male, I'm in perfect health, with an ideal weight, ideal blood pressure, and my last EKG was flawless.

Yeah much as I dislike Bourdain's supercilious better than thou attitude - he is a first class jerk - I have to side with him on this one. Paula Deen is an abomination as a cook. What is with the country-fried accent - does she really want to sound like a bumpkin? As for the deep-fried and buttered everything else - make your appointment now for the bypass down the road. And get your affairs in order.

Paula, no one talks that way. Your accent is so incredibly fake!

I love Paula, she's a doll. But I've eaten at two of her restaurants and the food she serves is really terrible. I was so disappointed after the first one and figured it was a fluke so recently tried another while in Savannah. Horrible food, never again. Still love Paula though.

Paula Deen is disgusting. As a fellow deep Southerner, she is a complete embarrassment, not only as a cook/chef, but personality wise as well. Her butter/lard diet and style of cooking is why most of us Southerners are morbidly obese and disgusting. At least Bourdain is cultured, educated, and appreciates real cuisine from around the world, showing us culinary traditions that we otherwise may not get to experience. Paula Deen is unwatchable, her food is inedible (if you wish to not begin having heart attacks by the age of 30), and she is a gross caricature of everything that is wrong with the deep South.

Paula Deen's food is terrible. Anyone who uses at minimum 2 sticks of butter in each of her dishes is a danger to anyone who eats her food. If she wants to be the next Oprah Winfrey just drop the terrible cooking aspect and be a talk show host. Deen's motto should be if it aint got butter, batter or gravy it aint worth eatin YALLLL!! Listening to this woman makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife. Anthony Bourdain can be a bit sarcastic and harsh but that is his humor, I wouldn't expect a country bumpkin like Deen to understand it. you take him with a grain of salt. Bourdain was an executive chef at a high end dining restaurant so yes I think he knows quite a bit about cooking and could cook Deen under the table anytime and anywhere. Face it she is everyone's country grandma and I don't mind my grandma's cooking but I sure as heck don't need to see it glorified and splattered all over a cooking network.

Bourdain has a palette for road kill repackaged as street food in the darkest corners of Borneo or Vietnam.

I think nothing more of his food opinions than I would Bear Grylls...

Hate to tell you guys this, but there are people in the south that do talk that way. They are great people, highly educated and fun to be around. A few of the wealthiest men and women I know are from tiny towns the south and they indeed do talk like that. Take a trip to places like MS, TX, AL, LA and GA. The people are friendly and fun. If you try, you just might enjoy yourselves.

Something tells me that Anthony Bourdain is about to come out with a book or something else he's trying to draw attention to.

Bourdain, a poor mans Jeremy Clarkson.

"...We eat chicken and okra. Nobody’s rectum.”
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Okra tastes like somebody's rectum.

Bottom line, not all of the things on Paula's shows are heart healthy, but no one forces anyone to eat it everyday. I have tried several of her recipes and found them all good--and some were even pretty healthy. As for her accent, I have traveled all over the South and there are folks who use 'y'all' a lot more than most of us and have really outgoing peronalities. Maybe she does ramp it up for the show a bit, but I bet not much. She just seems delighted with her life and family and career--guess some folks just can't apprecitate that.

With Bourdain's lifestyle of heavy alcohol use, smoking for 40 years and various other drug use...what gives him the right to criticize anyone's regular food habits?

I love Paula Deen!!!

I love Paula Deen,she a joy to watch.I don't know how her cooking taste but the recipes are out of this world.If you're not a big fan of butter then cut some of it out when cooking the dishes she cooks. And yes some of "us" southerners do use the word "yall". I find Ms. Deen to be a breath of fresh air one who shows love and affection to her sons and husband I don't think she's fake at all.As for the loud mouth who speaks down on her "shame on you" speak of that which you do know for a fact,because you don't know Ms. Deen.
Miss Glady's

I wonder just how many pounds of butter it takes to stew rectum?

You can say what you will about Bourdain; but he is a chef and Dean is a cook.

Can't we just all get along? Like you learned when you were a kid, "If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, just say anything at all". I love Paula Deen and I love Anthony. I like them each because they're unique in their tastes and sense of humor.

It's always interesting to see different perspectives on food, and it's true that we all have strong food preferences and food aversions. That said, how is styling oneself as a superstar by use of sarcasm, invective and negativity in any way superior to making good use of the colloquialisms, regional excesses, and humor of the South? Anyone can claim to be judge and jury. But really, aren't we tired of the bad boy act from so many people in various forms of media? Maybe the world needs more of the opposite. If you don't want to be hilariously happy and "buttery" in your demeanor, perhaps you could select some other alternative to the tired old sarcastic provocateur as an alternative. Yawn.

I think it's sad that two AWESOME cooks like Bourdain & Deen (both of whom i normally have the UTMOST respect for) have to be in this kind of controversy. I watch Anthony Bourdain's show, because he travels to exotic places and explores different cultures that many of us will probably never get to enjoy. Paula Deen is someone i watch a LOT (and pull receipes from), because her food reminds me of home, and many of her dishes are delicious and comforting (my mother makes her corn casserole a lot for Thanksgiving and we TEAR IT UP). Anthony Bourdain's comments are a bit hypocritical, considering that he himself smokes & drinks (you see it on the show regularly). So Bourdain is a bit dillusional in his self-fulfilling opinions. Paula Deen is awesome and i will continue to pull her recipes and purchase her magazines (which have KICK A@@ recipes!). As far as any furure mud-slinging, maybe they should save it for Zimmerman (now there's someone who needs to have a visit with Miss Manners the way he contantly smacks his food through his shows and exhibits HORRIBLE table manners!). Bad manners = no bueno! Just sayin....

I'm surprised paula didn't just throw a stick of butter into the situation. that's the only thing I ever picked up from her show. at least when I watch no reservations I get a little injection of regional culture. all I get from paula deen is a forced/exaggerated accent and a glimpse into why the south is statistically more obese than the rest of the country.

So Bourdain trash-talks, and Deen makes trashy food -- what else is new?

Bourdain's potshot at Deen was lame and irrelevant. The majority of us who enjoy her show are about as likely to eat that food as we are to take up smoking and adultery because we watch Mad Men. The truth is, it's darned fun to watch Deen put at least a stick of butter in everything and be anything but apologetic about it. It's darned fun to watch her dump half a bottle of maple-flavored, caramel-colored high-fructose corn syrup onto a single serving of flapjacks and follow it up with enough confectioner's sugar to hide Rudolph's red nose. And then to watch her dip chocolate candies in molten paraffin. She never pretended to be worldly or highbrow in her approach towards food, her smile and warmth are sincere, and she eats at least two bites of everything she makes.

And who is Bourdain to talk? From his post at Les Halles alone, he probably dumped more butter and saturated fat onto the plates of American diners than Deen ever will.

Isn't Bordain right though? Everybody named: Ray, Lee, Deen and Fieri aren't exactly real chefs. Ray went to a talk show. Lee is just a ditz with a show that her rich sugar daddy and fake chest bought her. Fieri won a contest.

Deen is an oddity. She gets by on her personality more than anything else. Her cooking is full of really bad elements like her dependence on fat and butter to make it taste good. She appeals to fat America.

I honestly don't know that much about Bourdain, but the people he chose to target really are the worst "cooks" on television.

I hope he goes after that Barefoot Contessa next.

Can anyone say Julia Child? Her French Cuisine was not of the low-fat healthy variety. Now I'm not comparing Paula Deen with Julia Child, just the type of foods they cooked with.

It's about time some body said something about the way Paula cooks! Every thing that woman cooks is baked in, fried in, deep fried in, smoothered in oil, or butter! She is a very unhealthy cook!

Anthony is a booshwa elitist that would rather eat fish from a river in Cambodia that is polluted with human feces than sit down to a good ol' chicken fried steak.

Paula Dean is an abomination. She is irresponsible. She even drank liquid butter saying it's good for you. She needs to come with a warning label. Eating the way she promotes will get you sick or dead. I'm from Georgia and she is the worst representative for our state I can think off. I'd love to she her and her husband's health chart, particularly cholesterol. She is annoying and disgusting!

Here's the sad Paula Deen story in a nutshell:

Make a shitload of money helping everyone get sick from fatty and sugary recipes, keep your own diagnosis of diabetes quiet for two years, and then make another shitload of money from a pharmaceutical company by endorsing a medicine for the illness you’ve helped create.

Then, go on a morning show and say it’s not the end of the world having diabetes and tell everyone that you're not going to change your cooking.

A full circle of idiocy.

I like butter. I enjoy fried food. Keep it simple and not over do it.
God that's easy.. Now as for Bourdain. His cholestrol may be O.K. but I would love to see how his liver looks.. Let's all have another drink..