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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780060012786 |
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"Take a little Bruce Chatwin, a heavy dose of MFK Fisher, the lacerating nastiness of Gore Vidal, and you might come up with something like A Cook's Tour, a thrillingly alive, somewhat out of control, mad, swirling bacchanalia of a book. Bourdain's around-the-world party (with stops in Cambodia, Vietnam, Russia, and Japan, among other places) of eating, drinking and surely participating in lots of activities that didn't make it into the book, is rapturously gluttonous, unrepentantly hedonistic. No one (except maybe the great Ms. Fisher or Elizabeth David) writes about food like this — food as love, as passion, as life." Adrienne Miller, Esquire (read the entire Esquire review)
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The only thing Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling, and A Cook's Tour is the shotgun marriage of his two greatest passions. Inspired by the question, 'What would be the perfect meal?', Anthony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail.
Our adventurous chef starts out in Japan, where he eats traditional Fugu, a poisonous blowfish which can be prepared only by specially licensed chefs. He then travels to Cambodia, up the mine-studded road to Pailin into autonomous Khmer Rouge territory and to Phnom Penh's Gun Club, where local fare is served up alongside a menu of available firearms. In Saigon, he's treated to a sustaining meal of live Cobra heart before moving on to savor a snack with the Viet Cong in the Mecong Delta. Further west, Kitchen Confidential fans will recognize the Gironde of Tony's youth, the first stop on his European itinerary. And from France, it's on to Portugal, where an entire village has been fattening a pig for months in anticipation of his arrival. And we're only halfway around the globe...
A Cook's Tour recounts, in Bourdain's inimitable style, the adventures and misadventures of America's favorite chef.
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caritamom, June 24, 2008 (view all comments by caritamom)
Hi i,m a 54 yr old women that loves to cook! i,ve never gone to all the exotic places anthony has traveled.But I love his commentary and ideas,He makes you feel as though you can taste the food and feel his hangovers! lol as far as the booze&smokes shame shame. You go guy!!!! I may be watching everyday from my liveingroom but in spirit I,m hanging onto his belt loop enjoying the tour!! Thank You for that!Anthony !!! Cheryl
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780060012786
- Subtitle:
- Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Harper Perennial
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Cookery
- Subject:
- Essays
- Subject:
- Food
- Subject:
- Essays & Travelogues
- Subject:
- Regional & Ethnic - International
- Subject:
- General Cooking
- Copyright:
- 2001
- Edition Number:
- 1st Ecco ed.
- Edition Description:
- Ecco
- Series Volume:
- 107-548
- Publication Date:
- November 5, 2002
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 8.07x5.37x.77 in. .63 lbs.
