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(MrAoD) wrote in message >...
> (MrAoD)
>
> >Miche writes:
> >> (MrAoD) wrote:
> >>
> >>> Fudge asks:
> >>>
> >>> >I just ordered the book "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain as a
> >>> >Christmas present to myself. Anybody read the book?
> >>>
> >>> Yep. Good read. Rang true. I wasn't the obsessive food-service type
> when
> I
> >>> was working in the industry, but I recognized a LOT of former colleagues.
> >>>
> >>> Checked "Cook's Tour" out of the library last week, working my way through
>
> >>> it.
> >>> Makes me wish I could park the kid for a day so I could swim right through
> it
> >>> instead of doing five pages here, five there. Think of the ******* child
> of
> >>> Proust and Hemingway, in search of a petite madeleine made from snake's
> blood
> >>> and offal.
> >>>
> >>> I can also recommend his two fiction works, "Gone Bamboo" and . . . um,
> title
> >>> escapes me right now, if you like gonzo gritty thrillers.
>
> Title is "Bone in the Throat", I've got Cook's Tour in my lap as I'm typing
> this. Up to the section in which Bourdain's with the Tuareg trying to gen up
> a genuine meshwi feast. The Tuareg, seemingly too sophisticated for that now,
> make him bring his own whole lamb.
>
> Like many of the tales in the book his search for "authentic" experiences are
> wryly funny in the sense that he has to manufacture the authentic experiences.
> OTOH the truly authentic experiences he falls into are related in an awed
> (albeit bawdy/profane) tone.
>
> Having (almost) read his entire body of work I find his voice consistent. . .
> and consistently good. And whatever faults he has as a person
> (self-acknowledged) his love and understanding of food come through.
>
> I look forward to reading more of Bourdain's work when it comes out.
>
> Best,
>
> Marc

He posts on egullet.com a lot, amusing stuff. Talked about some
awards ceremony and what a putz Alton Brown was when he went to
shake his hand.

Joanie