Anthony Bourdain on Ruth Bourdain

Gotta love foodie fun! If you’re a foodie and don’t know about Ruth Bourdain, then you should be ashamed of yourself. It began with as a joke Twitter account targeting Ruth Reichl, former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and Anthony Bourdain and has now turned into a foodie phenomenon touching the biggest names in food. “She” is so well known that a new James Beard Award (James Beard Award = food Oscars) category for Humor Writing was created in “her” honor. The identity of the person behind the Twitter account and now blog, is a mystery, and many (including Anthony Bourdain) want to keep it that way!

The lesson: never underestimate the power of social media (specially Twitter) and a good idea.

ruthbourdain:

I think I know, and it ain’t that hard to figure out, but I really don’t want to know. I’m pushing it out of my brain. I hope he/she has a long and glorious career doing exactly what he/she is doing. Just the repartee between Ruth Bourdain and Tom Colicchio makes it all worthwhile. So, I don’t want to know. I’ve expunged it. Anyone who tells me who it is or who they think it is, I’ve pushed it out of my brain and I don’t want to hear it and I don’t want to know.

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