Comments on: Do Bourdain’s Wives Really Choose Obscurity?

By: catsworking

catsworking — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:13:27 +0000

Welcome, Beth. Yes, Ottavia is Italian. Her father is from Sardinia and her mother is from the Lombardy region. You can see ALL of them in the Sardinia episode, which was the last episode of Season 5, which just wrapped up. It’s probably being rerun on the Travel Channel a lot between now and the new year when Season 6 starts.

By: bethanderson

bethanderson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:06:48 +0000

Oh, so she is Italian. That figures. Italians pretty much create the book on rawness and passion. Best lovers I ever had in my life, bar none.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:45:40 +0000

So just who are you Miss Milque Toast.

Inquiring minds do want to know, you seem awfully bitter, I am sure that you must have better things to do in your evening than haunt this lowly blog and run people down anonymously.

Tell the world, does Tony owe you Money???
Is he the father of your love child???

Or are you just someone with an axe to grind looking for an outlet???

In any case if you did or do know him, put down the knife and spill the beans.

The Floor is yours….

Bob

By: Joan Toast

Joan Toast — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:08:04 +0000

Bourdain’s wives don’t choose obscurity…Tony chooses for them. It’s all about him; he doesn’t like to share.

By: catsworking

catsworking — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:22:10 +0000

Rose, you may be getting your wish on September 14. Bourdain’s got a new No Res coming in Sardinia that he says they have dubbed the “Meet the Fockers” episode. I think it includes his Italian in-laws, so if we don’t get a good look at Ottavia and Ariane, I will be very surprised.

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:26:30 +0000

I’m a fan, a big fan. I even watch episodes that I’ve already seen. If Tony needs a “stand in”, my husband looks exactly like him. Or, as my hubby would say, “Anthony looks like me. I’m 2 yrs older.” Anyway, I’d love to see an episode with his baby daughter. Wouldn’t we all like to see Tony being a papa? Too sweet? I think not.

By: catsworking

catsworking — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:24:38 +0000

Deborah, I’m not a mother, so I can’t be sure about this, but I think the pictures of Ariane, even on the Christmas card, seem to have been taken a while ago. Now that she’s getting older, Bourdain seems to be keeping her face away from the camera, for which I don’t blame him. You never know what crazies are out there. With Ottavia, though, the cat’s out of the bag. We’ve seen her enough to pick her out of a crowd.

By: deborah t

deborah t — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:07:14 +0000

Bob – I agree totally with you. I believe that AB and his wife have chosen to keep the fam out of a lot of pics, which is completely within their rights. In this day and age, you would have to be crazy to allow your wife and your child to be in the public eye . So many are critical of AB, but I find him an amazing chef and a writer than I can connect with…………………

By: catsworking

catsworking — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:10:30 +0000

When Ariane gets old enough to realize what’s going on around her, I think she’ll have an amazing life as Bourdain’s daughter if he’s still got his traveling gig. And as Ottavia accompanies him today, I hope they’re bringing Ariane along so she gets used to being on the road.

Much as we joke about Ottavia’s youth, from what little we’ve seen of her (aside from that Miami Ink skull tattoo thing) she does seem down-to-earth and a good influence on Tony. I can only assume that she’s a devoted mother and Ariane will thrive.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:43:33 +0000

A Rethink on this whole wife in the shot thing…….

Bear with me here…. Yes Tony has a private and a personal life, and as we know they do sometimes mix.

He has a young daughter, who is by all accounts traveling with him and his wife.
This is a good and Noble thing. I by no means am saying that its good to raise a child on the road but its always good to have family close.

Having said that, the man has a JOB. Anyone that has read anything about Tony is that he doesn’t miss work, its an easy gig after cooking but it is his work.

Life on the road is tough, by all accounts it killed him and Nancy.
Maybe he is trying to keep things in this relationship stable by sharing experiences.

Hard to say .

But the babe in arms sounds like its eating the world over.
Bob