A Cook's Tour

Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

By Anthony Bourdain
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060012786, 288pp.)

Publication Date: November 2002

Categories: Essays, Essays & Travelogues, Regional & Ethnic - International

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Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, in addition to the mega-bestseller Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour. He is the host of the popular television show No Reservations.

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“Adventurous and opinionated, [Bourdain] is very good company.”
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“None of your limp-wristed, pinch-mouthed, hoity-toity delicacies for this guy.”
-Elle

“Some fine food adventure reading…. Bourdain offers excellent insight into real food.”
-San Francisco Chronicle

Food Writer of the Year
-Bon Appétit

“Brilliant. A chain-smoking, hard-drinking, cut-to-the-chase guy’s guy, ready to try anything new and different.”
-Minneapolis Star Tribune

“If you’re looking for a camel ride and an amiable companion, you could do a lot worse.”
-Washington Post

“Vintage Bourdain.”
-Dallas Morning News

“Mighty engaging.... [Bourdain’s] snappy, full-bore writing style--whether being sarcastic, passionate, or descriptive--is good entertainment.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“[Bourdain] is a one-man army traveling the world on his stomach--and his droll wit.”
-People

“Bourdain’s mission is to show the cool, un-Martha side of the culinary world.”
-Time magazine