We here at FishbowlLA love us some Anthony Bourdain. So we were excited to hear that Bourdain has a February 9 speaking gig at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons. Then we got a look at the price. Holy schnikes! Seeing Bourdain talk will cost you 55 to 85 dollars. Then, if you want him to sign your book, that will cost you an extra 75 bucks to attend a book-signing reception.

The latter ticket is apparently part of a capital campaign to help build a new culinary center on campus. Still, somewhere the Rolling Stones are blushing.

Wonder what 150 bucks would get you out of Andrew Zimmern? We’re guessing, at a minimum, he’d eat some donkey penis and use delicate adjectives to describe the experience.

The editors at the New York Times have asked 10 writers to review the decade. Anthony Bourdain host of the show “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” reviewed 2007 in a piece titled “Foodie Nation.”

He writes:

The brilliant, pioneering work of LA Weekly’s Jonathan Gold was honored with a Pulitzer Prize, the first time for a food writer – and this, surely, was a Very Important Moment.

When confronted with the news, Gold wrote on his Twitter feed:

Wow.

Swoon.

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