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"Dee Randall" > wrote:

> > wrote in message
> oups.com...


> > That was an episode I didn't see, unfortunately, but I read the chapter
> > in his Cook's Tour book about that meal at the French Laundry.
> > Bourdain says it's the only restaurant on earth that is so great he
> > doesn't mind not being able to smoke there. And then when it came for
> > dessert, Thomas Keller, the FL chef, knew Bourdain's tastes well enough
> > to create for him a dessert infused with tobacco!
> >

> I have only his book "Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines" which I take
> with me to read for waiting purposes and have not got through it --
> I see in that book, he has listed other titles,
> "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly"
> "Bone in the Throat"
> "Gone Bamboo"
> "Typhod Mary (an urban Historical)"
>
> Would you know which of these books the French Laundry experience was in?
>
> Yes, Bourdain's is really a smoker, and you can tell the toll it (and
> probably other things?) takes on him.
> Dee Dee


_A Cooks Tour_
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158...6651?v=glance&
n=283155

marcella