A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain

A Cook’s Tour

In search of the perfect meal

by Anthony Bourdain

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001, [First Edition], ISBN 0747556865, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“Anthony Bourdain, life-long cook and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, sets off to eat his way around the world.  But being Anthony Bourdain, he was never going to take a conventional culinary tour…
Inspired by Apocalypse Now, Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra (washed down with its blood), and then into Cambodia, the Heart of Darkness, where he travels deep into land mined Khmer Rouge territory.  Other stops include dining with gangsters in Russia, a medieval style pig slaughter in northern Portugal, a Basque All Male astronomic Society in San Sebastian, eating whole roasted lamb with Tuareg tribesmen in the Northern Sahara, a pilgrimage to the French Laundry in the Napa Valley and a return to his roots in the tiny fishing village of La Teste, where as a child he first ate an oyster.”