The Anthony Bourdain reader : new, classic, and rediscovered writing / edited by Kimberly Witherspoon ; foreword by Patrick Radden Keefe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourdain, Anthony, author.

Contributor:

Witherspoon, Kimberly, editor.

Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bourdain, Anthony.

Bourdain, Anthony--Anecdotes.

Cooks--United States--Biography.

Cooks.

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Diaries.

Personal narratives.

Anecdotes.

Autobiographies.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xviii. 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]

Summary:

"Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people--and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him, and more long-lasting, than that of a writer. The Anthony Bourdain Reader is a collection of his best and most fascinating writing, and touches on his many pursuits and passions, from restaurant life to family life to the "low life," from TV to travel through places like Vietnam, Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai. The Anthony Bourdain Reader is also a showcase for new and never-before-seen material, like diary entries from Bourdain's first trip to France as a teenager and "It's Cruel and Unforgiving Terrain," a piece on the New York restaurant scene, as well as unpublished short fiction like "I Quit My Job Yesterday" and chapters from No New Messages, his unfinished novel. These newly discovered pieces all contribute to give the fullest picture of the man behind the books."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Eating and drinking

Lust

Invasion of the walking glands

Salty horse

How to drink vodka

The purpose of the hamburger bun

Fugu fish in Tokyo

Fire over England

Bobby eats out

Guts and glory: an adventure with offal

It's cruel and unforgiving terrain

Family

Back to the beach

Thanksgiving: a tactical primer

You need money

How Anthony Bourdain came to be Anthony Bourdain

That's our family and this is our family cookbook

The happy ending

I'm dancing

Soup du jour

Rage

Beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands

Just don't smoke

Hypocrisy

A sandwich is a beautiful thing

Escape comix

Mauser

The fish-on-Monday thing

I quit my job yesterday

Being a chef

Gordon Ramsay

I've seen some shit

The program

Center of the world

Chefs' night out

Kappa

Sketch of a chef

A day in the life

Medium-rare

Mermaids singing, each to each

The story of a cook

The low life

Things to do today

Climb out

In the face of a jumpy coke addict I see a dead man

I'm a chef

Crime

Gumshoes

A strange and twisted adventure

Wet affairs

The Young Caremians

Vietnam

I was hooked

Highway of death

I'm still here

Hanoi

Restlessness

I'll give it all up someday

Untitled play (script?) about television

It tastes like victory

At the churchyard: another pointless journalistic play

Diary entries from France, 1973

No new messages

Television

Reasons you don't want to be on television: number one in a series

Never flinch

Reasons you don't want to be on television: number three in a series

Panels

The typewriter or the television

The restaurant

This was his favorite part of the day

Don't eat before reading this

Food is sex

Kitchen

An exquisite corpse.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Weiner fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780062863959

0062863959

OCLC:

1525952533