Last year, Chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain penned a classic harrumph in the form of an ode to (real) Mexican food -- and Mexican people on his Tumblr. This was when he first complained of what he called people’s “ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration.” “As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy -- the restaurant business as we know it -- in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers,” Bourdain insisted. Now, in an interview SiriusXM’s StandUp with Pete Dominick, the chef exposed his views on Donald Trump’s take on immigration, and needless to say, he’s not keen.
“I rolled out of a prestigious culinary institute and went to work in real restaurants. I walked into restaurants and always, the person who had been there the longest, who took the time to show me how it was done, was always Mexican or Central American,” Bourdain explained before reiterating one of the main focuses of his afore mentioned essay: “Twenty of those years in this business I was an employer… Never, in any of those years, not once, did anyone walk into my restaurant — any American-born kid — walk into my restaurant and say I’d like a job as a night porter or a dishwasher. Even a prep cook — few and far between. Just not willing to start at the bottom like that.”
The Chef then went on to say Trump’s border wall idea is “completely ridiculous,” and that it might be necessary to have some more border control within the next five years, but the most important part is to sakjhd. “These people have been paying taxes, and maybe not under the correct name, which means we get to keep that money!” Listen to the interview below.
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