Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
This is cool! We all ought to band together and form the Alton Brown 420 Fan Club.

Does anyone else know who chef/author/traveler Anthony Bourdain is and like him? I adore the guy. He had a show on Food TV called "Cook's Tour" and is now on the Travel Channel doing a show called "No Reservations." Food TV didn't renew his show because he sometimes tends to make acerbic comments about some of their less skilled (but very popular) TV stars like Emeril and Rachel Ray, whom I cannot stand. Anyway, to my way of thinking, Tony Bourdain is perhaps the coolest celebrity chef there is. He would be all for a 420 fan club, too. He's a recovered heroin addict.
Yeah, Tony Bourdain is good too. I like the fact that he goes and tries all the fun stuff that the locals eat. He's more likely to eat off of some street vendor's cart than in some fancy restuarant. I've done a lot of travelling in Asia and know for a fact that some of the street vendor stuff is awesome, even if it looks scary.

On one of his shows he was in the South American jungle and took some native psychedelic concoction. He was showing some indian shaman making the stuff and then made some statement about the fact that the producers wouldn't actually let him do it. He was just going to watch someone else take it (wink, wink) and they show him go into the hut. The next thing they show is him coming out of the hut the next morning with a totally dazed look on his face. In other words, even if they couldn't show him tripping out he wasn't going to pass up the opportunity.:thumbsup: