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Read this book to know why tuh-nee committed suicide. Aside from the culinary info and his jaunts. I really understand his behaviour now. I realise kids must be raised to experience the entire gamut of emotions when they are young with a healthy exposure to the world. Over protect them they rebel later. I empathise his situation. He couldn't handle his feelings successfully. He was damaged by too much love. Like the Ukrainians say his parents strzngulated him by hugging( too much love)...

A must read 4 every Tony bourdain fan hopefully u won't mind the fboms n salty style of the writer with dry humour of late Mr Bourdain I am a big fan of him n his work u can say he was very influential for ppl who wanna dream n travel n respect other cultures. Thanks 4 ur Witt n honesty even in ur book. R.I P Mr Bourdain 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

He was probably one of the best essayist out there. Honest, funny, self depricating. I am not a foodie. Yet I read Bourdain. That I think says it all

Love this book! The audible version is great when you are cooking and not in the mood for iTunes! Hugs Anthony B for keeping it so real it feels surreal! ❤️👌

Anthony Bourdain has the rare gift of being able to write the way he talk and get away with it. Hard and gritty, no punches pulled, you are taken on some blasts through his pasts of alcohol and drug infused foggy drama. Made me feel a bit knackered just reading it. An excellent insight into the business background of the restaurant game, what has made money and what has failed and why. Unthreads the "cool" of chefdom, artistry, ethics, new developments, new movements, from the ability to make cash/fame out of the profession. He begrudgingly gives respect, for example, to Food Network, who he says has none of the former but plenty of the latter. A few of the chefs that have plenty of the former, (and I have therefore never heard of them), he describes to the point that there are plenty of opportunities for follow up reading. An absorbing enjoyable book that reads like the plot of a Marlon Brando movie and still manages to be about the art and commerce of cooking.

There two things that might put off readers from this book. First, the opening dinner is not something most people would approve of. I didn't. Second, even I learned some new ways to cuss and swear from this book! That and the subject material means this isn't a book for the faint of heart. So who is this book for? It's for anyone who wants an honest look at the world of food. From the chef point of view, from the TV/Food Network point of view, from the marketing point of view, from the failed/disaster point of view, from the restaurant point of view, and from the "eater" point of view. Bourdain is brutally honest. With himself as well as with those he talks about. His point about selling out was particularly poignant. He used to look down on other chefs for selling out to ads for cookware, or toothpaste. Then he realized it was his ego talking, as he ultimately was willing to sell out. It's all a matter of price, and he uses the famous joke about a man propositioning a woman for a million dollars. If you don't know how it ends, you will after reading this book. Bourdain covers a huge range of topics in a reflective look at the world of cooking. There's a lot of personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences in this book. But he also dishes out plenty of information on other people in the business. Some of them by name (e.g., Rachel Ray, Mario Batalli, Emeril, Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay), some by reference that insider chefs will certainly clue into. He strays into philosophical territory not just over money, but over the ethics of eating meat, running a restaurant, and the general ethics of eating. The book is written in a very approachable way, and I found it both fun and easy to breeze through it. At the same time though, there's enough meat on the bone here (pardon the unintentional pun) to keep you thinking throughout. It's hardly a fluff biography or essay. As someone who enjoys cooking, eating out, traveling, and the Food Network, I found this to be a really enjoyable read. Funny, serious, thoughtful, shocking, and always honest, this is definitely one of the more enjoyable books I've read in a while!

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