Bourdain : in stories / Laurie Woolever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolever, Laurie, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bourdain, Anthony--Anecdotes.

Bourdain, Anthony.

Celebrity chefs--United States--Biography.

Celebrity chefs.

Television personalities--United States--Biography.

Television personalities.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xviii, 442 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Bourdain : the definitive oral biography

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death. Now, for the first time, we have been granted a look into Bourdain's life through the stories and recollections of his closest friends and colleagues. Laurie Woolever, Bourdain's longtime assistant and confidante, interviewed nearly a hundred of the people who shared Tony's orbit-from members of his kitchen crews to his writing, publishing, and television partners, to his daughter and his closest friends - in order to piece together a remarkably full, vivid, and nuanced vision of Tony's life and work. From his childhood and teenage days, to his early years in New York, through the genesis of his game-changing memoir Kitchen Confidential to his emergence as a writing and television personality, and in the words of friends and colleagues including Eric Ripert, Jose Andres, Nigella Lawson, and W. Kamau Bell, as well as family members including his brother and his late mother, we see the many sides of Tony - his motivations, his ambivalence, his vulnerability, his blind spots, and his brilliance. Unparalleled in scope and deeply intimate in its execution, with a treasure trove of photos from Tony's life, Bourdain: The Oral Biography is a definitive testament to the life of a remarkable man in the words of the people who shared his world.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "I Absolutely Always Saw a Talent in Him": Early Life

2. "Super Smart, Super Funny": The Teenage Years

3. "A Lot of Fun to Be Around": Young Adulthood

4. "It Was What the Cool Kids Were Doing": The Early New York Years

5. "He Just Wanted to Be a Writer in the Worst Way": Meeting Joel Rose

6. "They Got Some Money, and It Just Went into Their Veins": Heroin

7. "I'm Tony Motherfucking Bourdain

-You Got a Problem?": New York in the Nineties

8. "Such Was My Lust to See My Name in Print"

9. "Appalling Stories of Remorseless Criminality": The Stone Brothers

10. "You've Got a Long Con Going Here": The Genesis of Kitchen Confidential

11. "It Was Picking Up a Rock Off the Restaurant Scene and Showing Everything That Was Underneath It"

12. "He Was Not Just a Cook Anymore; He Was a Real 3D Person"

13. "I'm Not Gonna Censor the Guy": Editing and Publishing Kitchen Confidential

14. "The Brass Ring Comes Around Only Once"

15. "He Never Came Off Book Tour"

16. "I'd Love to Travel the World": A Cook's Tour Begins

17. "Tony Was So Reluctant to Do Television"

18. "He Was Ahead of His Time": The End of A Cook's Tour

19. "He Was Prepared to Piss Off Everybody": Travel Channel

20. "He Was Very Untethered": The Early No Reservations Years

21. "Basically, He Kidnapped My Cat": Tony Meets Ottavia

22. "Let's Spin the Wheel Again": Beirut, a Baby

23. "It Was Not the Easiest Thing": Life on the Road as a Family

24. "Don't Bother Tony": Navigating Friendships and Fame

25. "We Got Shit Done": Making No Reservations

26. "You See a Person Who's Come Full Circle, and He's Seen the World": Medium Raw

27. "I Knew I Could Write the Story I Needed to Write": Tony as Publisher, Graphic Novelist, and Screenwriter

28. "I Felt Like I Knew Him All My Life": David Simon Recalls Tony

29. "He Could Have Sat in a Santa's Throne in a Shopping Mall": The Onstage Experience

30. "He Was a Curator of People"

31. "He Was a Man of Extremes"

32. "Darker, More Transgressive, and More Lurid": Roads & Kingdoms

33. "Everyone Felt They Knew Him": Charisma and Reserve

34. "Get a Big Fucking Body Bag": Frustration and Isolation in the Field

35. "Tony Had a Burden of Leadership That Was Real"

36. "He Always Had to Perform the Role of Tony"

37. "Such an Unlikely Program for Him": The Taste

38. "Push the Boundary Really Hard, Really Fast": The Move to CNN

39. "I Really Wasn't Doing It for the Cronut": Tony Tries a Talk Show

40. "Middle-Class White People Going to Poverty-Stricken Parts of the World... without Being Dicks about It"

41. "It Was Too Much of a Dream": The Bourdain Market

42. "You Don't Direct Tony Bourdain": Life on the Road with Parts Unknown

43. "You Were That Guy Who Got Arrested": Jason and Yeganeh Rezaian in Iran

44. "This Is Just Another Tribe": Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

45. "Maybe You'll Find Another Chance at Love": The End of the Marriage

46. "Tony's Changed; Tony's Very Different Now"

47. "He Was Attracted to Chaos"

48. "They're Gonna Tear You Apart": Alienating Friends

49. "He Was Like a Young Kid in Love"

50. "Every Good Band Eventually Breaks Up"

51. "Embracing the Chaos": Rome and Puglia

52. "We Bolstered Each Other's Incorrect Assertion That Asking for Help Is Somehow a Mistake"

53. "Call It Impostor Syndrome, If You Want, but Tony Definitely Had It"

54. "We Should Do Something Together": Kenya with W. Kamau Bell

55. "I Knew Someone Was Doomed": Hong Kong

56. "You Can't Put Your Arms around a Memory": New York, Asturias, Florence

57. "All OK": Alsace

58. "It's Hard to See Things as They Really Are"

59. "He Was an Extraordinary Witness and Voice for the World".

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526645173

1526645173

9780062909107

006290910X

9781526645166

1526645165

OCLC:

1258670482