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"Marcella Peek" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Dee Randall" > wrote:
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>> > wrote in message
>> oups.com...

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>> > 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

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


Thanks, Marcella. Wow, he has a lot of books that I didn't know about.
I'm in for a treat.
Dee Dee