An interview with the pontifical Travel Channel TV star, former chef and author. Wherein Bourdain is surprisingly lenient on Rachael Ray, reliably (but rightly) harsh on Sandra Lee and shows a new flexibility on the whole issue of “selling out”:

And I’m beginning to think that it’s just vanity that’s kept me from selling out, and doing Imodium commercials or something. [Laughs.] I really don’t know why I’ve avoided it. I’m beginning to think it’s for less noble reasons than I have been telling myself.

Don’t do it Anthony. Your unique legacy is intact as long as No Reservations continues to mean that you will try anything, go anywhere and tell it like you see it and not that you’ll shill for anything for the right price.