A Cook's Tour
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by 
Plum-crazy
from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, June 28, 2009
Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, June 28, 2009
Amazon Editorial Review:
A Cook's Tour is the written record of Tony Bourdain's travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year old knees (Crunch! Pop! Snap!) after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of Kitchen Confidential as collateral, Mr Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.
The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep's testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California's Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined kaiseki rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarimen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don't-try-this-at-home shots of Tony in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.
You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. So far, so PJ O'Rourke. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living. --Robin Davidson
A Cook's Tour is the written record of Tony Bourdain's travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. All too conscious of the state of his 44-year old knees (Crunch! Pop! Snap!) after a working life standing at restaurant stoves, but with the unlooked-for jackpot of Kitchen Confidential as collateral, Mr Bourdain evidently concluded he needed a bit more wind under his wings.
The idea of "perfect meal" in this context is to be taken to mean not necessarily the most upscale, chi-chi, three-star dining experience, but the ideal combination of food, atmosphere and company. This would take in fishing villages in Vietnam, bars in Cambodia and Tuareg camps in Morocco (roasted sheep's testicle, as it happens); it would stretch to smoked fish and sauna in the frozen Russian countryside and the French Laundry in California's Napa Valley. It would mean exquisitely refined kaiseki rituals in Japan after yakitori with drunken salarimen. Deep-fried Mars Bars in Glasgow and Gordon Ramsay in London. The still-beating heart of a cobra in Saigon. Drink. Danger. Guns. All with a TV crew in tow for the accompanying series--22 episodes of video gold, we are assured, featuring many don't-try-this-at-home shots of Tony in gastric distress or crawling into yet another storm drain at four in the morning.
You are unlikely to lay your hands on a more hectically, strenuously entertaining book for some time. Our hero eats and swashbuckles round the globe with perfect-pitch attitude and liberal use of judiciously placed profanities. Bourdain can write. His timing is great. He is very funny and is under no illusions whatsoever about himself or anyone else. So far, so PJ O'Rourke. But most of all, he is a chef who got himself out of his kitchen and found, all over the world, people who understand that eating well is the foundation of harmonious living. --Robin Davidson
Journal Entry 2 by Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 7, 2009
I'm a big fan of Bourdain's TV series "A Cook's Tour:in search of the perfect meal" & this basically is the TV series in book format....all the weird, wonderful...& stomach churning dishes are here!
Bourdain is a funny writer, sharp, honest, sensitive & belligerent - enjoy!
Bourdain is a funny writer, sharp, honest, sensitive & belligerent - enjoy!
Journal Entry 3 by Plum-crazy at OBCZ, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Friday, July 31, 2009
Plum-crazy at OBCZ, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Friday, July 31, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (7/31/2009 UTC) at OBCZ, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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On it's way to birmingham-rose to help re-stock an OBCZ.
Released as part of the 2009 ULTIMATE CHALLENGE -themed "NON-FICTION release for July
On it's way to birmingham-rose to help re-stock an OBCZ.
Released as part of the 2009 ULTIMATE CHALLENGE -themed "NON-FICTION release for July
Journal Entry 4 by birmingham-rose from Burntwood, Staffordshire United Kingdom on Monday, August 10, 2009
Received a few days back - Thank you Plum-crazy! It is going to be reserved for later release to an OBCZ. (Not sure which one yet as I manage one and have another in the pipeline)
