Chicago Deep Dish Pizza & Foie Gras Hot Dogs | Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations | Travel Channel

Anthony is in Chicago, challenging his beliefs about the morality of deep dish pizza and eating the best hot dogs the country has to offer. He joins his friend and fellow foodie Louisa Chu at Burt’s Place, a Morton Grove mainstay serving amazing Chicago-style deep dish pizzas. Then, it’s off to Hot Doug’s, the national home of hot dog perfection! Foie gras dogs and french fries fried in pure duck fat, ya can’t beat it!

[csnide]

RIP to Bert He was a Chicago
also RIP to I hope your pain is over.

[TheNarutoUzumaki]

"I'm 71 for christs sake and im still workin like a dumbass" what a legend

[CarlHungus-duzb]

I used to deliver to Hot Doug’s. The exotic stuff. He’d always let me eat for free and I wouldn’t have to wait in line. Awesome dude.

[TrangNguyen-zfxf]

No one does it like Tony. Miss this man so much

[Pd]

Burt’s Place still exists and is currently open

[andycopland]

As an Englishman, going to Chicago was pretty special. They love their food, their city and culture. I'm so glad I got to eat at these places all those years ago.

[LUCKOWL]

God bless you, Anthony Bourdain you’ll be forever missed you opened up the world to travel and food May you forever rest in peace RIP you were all i had growing up and emerald Lagasse

[Kostly]

Chicago is one of the greatest food towns in the world.

[paullawson]

Boy, do I miss this guy. He always seemed to have my complete attention.

[palaceofwisdom]

FYI: For those who miss Hot Doug's, you can visit Paulina Market here in Chicago. They supplied all of the sausages and even still sell some packaged with the Hot Doug's branding. The place is a carnivore's paradise.

[AngryDigitalNerd]

Mr. Anthony Bourdain is a legend! We still miss him!

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

For Chicago-style dogs, Vienna Beef is typically used which was founded by Emil Reichel and Sam Ladany who moved from Vienna to Chicago in the 1890s. In 1900, Vienna Beef began to sell and deliver to other stores and restaurants in Chicago. This worked well in Chicago, which was the meatpacking capital of the world and a leader in the industrial food market. During the Great Depression, a number of Vienna Beef vendors begin advertising that their hot dogs have a "salad on top", thus leading to the eventual Chicago-style dog. Chicago hot dog relish is neon green thanks to adding blue dye. Why? Because Vienna Beef wanted to make the relish pop in in promotional photographs, where ordinary relish looked dull and unappetizing. And celery salt on the hot dog became a thing thanks to the many celery farms Chicago once had on its North Side!

It has been said that Ike Sewell and Ric Riccardo invented Chicago deep-dish pizza. These two used their love for business and Italian cuisine and opened Pizzeria Uno in Chicago in 1943. From here, they began experimenting with a more Americanized version of pizza, something more substantial than the average thin slice that pizza had been known for since the time of flatbread and oil. After Sewell and Riccardo perfected their inverted pizza creation, it became a major hit in Chicago, and the trend spread to neighboring pizzerias across the city and, eventually, the entire country. In a reflection of ancient customs, the idea for deep-dish stemmed once more from poorer, working-class needs combined with a lack of necessary ingredients due to World War II. People would make a dough of sorts with what they had, adding leftover food and anything else they could think of to create a pie-like substance.

Chicago has a nice flag, initially the flag had just two stars when it was adopted in 1917, but it changed to three in 1933 and then a fourth in 1939. Each six-pointed star (six points were chosen because no other flag had this when it was made) represents an event in Chicago's history. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933, and the establishment of Fort Dearborn in 1803. And each point on these stars has a meaning. For the Great Chicago Fire for example the points represent the virtues of religion, education, aesthetics, justice, beneficence, and civic pride. The three white bars represent the North, West, and South Sides of Chicago. The top sky-blue bar represents Lake Michigan and the North Branch of the Chicago River, while the bottom bar represents the South Branch of the river and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

During the city's St Patrick's Day, the city uses a vegetable-based powder (the dye formula remains a secret), dubbed Leprechaun Dust, to temporarily make the river green. Its low concentration and quick absorption make it non-toxic. The chemical dye used to turn the river green is not actually green itself but more of an orange color which turns green when it reacts with water! The first time the Chicago River took on a green hue was completely accidental. In 1961, Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local 130 poured a special, oil-based fluorescein dye into the river as a means of detecting leaks and other abnormalities such as illegal chemical pollution. By chance, Plumbers Local 130 leader Stephen Bailey noticed that one of the worker’s overalls were stained green from the dye, and thus sparked the inspiration for the tradition starting in 1962 when they poured 100 pounds of it for the holiday! After it was realized the dye used was very harmful to the river, Chicago plumbers agreed to stop using fluorescein in favor of the vegetable-based formula in 1966.

[bradleylovej]

Anthony: I'm from NY.

Everybody: Oh... *rolls eyes*

Always glad to see New Yorkers getting their proper greeting.

[anthonyerdenetuguldur]

I love visiting Chicago in the Summer and Fall!! Great food, people, restaurants, clubs and weather!

[mrpogi]

One of my all time fav episodes. Great upload

[jeremitrius]

I was so incredibly fortunate to meet Burt and enjoy one of his pizzas before he passed. 10+ years later it's still the best I've ever had. RIP Burt and RIP Tony

[slappytheclown]

All my friends who aren't from Chicago/Illinois always think a chicago style hot dog looks too weird with the veggies and whatnot but every time I've gotten them to try one they've fell in love. Easily the best hot dog you can get anywhere.

[nathanialbrown]

one of the great narrators of our time.

[motivationavd]

Damn I miss Anthony Bourdain! What a maverick of a chef & storyteller! Incredibly opinionated in the first & humbled to the last. I hope he's at peace with all the interesting chefs like Mr. Burt here in a heavenly universe.

[TL]

Why i started watching the travel food channel because of this guy