So what did country-hopping, exotic-food tasting Travel Channel star Anthony Bourdain find to his taste in, of all places, Detroit?
The star of “No Reservations” visited the Family Donut Shop in Hamtramck and sampled paczkis, which is basically a cream-filled donut.
Bourdain wrote in his blog that “just about everything cool originated” in Detroit.
“As angry as one gets looking at block after block of abandoned row houses in Baltimore and wondering how the hell that happened, it’s mind boggling to see how far Detroit has been allowed to fall. But what a truly magnificent breed of crazy-ass, hardcase characters have dug in there.”
He labeled Detroit a “true culinary wonderland.”
“This is due entirely to the successive waves of migration and immigration from all over the world, when people came to MAKE things in America — each group bringing their own food and traditions,” he said.
He concluded:
“Detroit, after all, made us who we are. Literally. A country of cars, highways, car culture, upward mobility, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and what were once, unlimited dreams. Whatever happens next, Motown, Eminem and the Stooges’ ‘Fun House’, at least, shall surely outlast the automobile.”
By David Wilkening
