A Cook's Tour
In Search of the Perfect Meal
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4.6 • 11 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, this wonderful book sees Bourdain travelling the world discovering exotic foods.
Dodging minefields in Cambodia, diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world over in search of the ultimate meal. The only thing Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling, and A Cook's Tour is the shotgun marriage of his two greatest passions. Inspired by the question, 'What would be the perfect meal?', Anthony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail.
Our adventurous chef starts out in Japan, where he eats traditional Fugu, a poisonous blowfish which can be prepared only by specially licensed chefs. He then travels to Cambodia, up the mine-studded road to Pailin into autonomous Khmer Rouge territory and to Phnom Penh's Gun Club, where local fare is served up alongside a menu of available firearms. In Saigon, he's treated to a sustaining meal of live Cobra heart before moving on to savor a snack with the Viet Cong in the Mecong Delta. Further west, Kitchen Confidential fans will recognize the Gironde of Tony's youth, the first stop on his European itinerary. And from France, it's on to Portugal, where an entire village has been fattening a pig for months in anticipation of his arrival. And we're only halfway around the globe. . . A Cook's Tour recounts, in Bourdain's inimitable style, the adventures and misadventures of America's favorite chef.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The more extreme the cuisine, the more excited Anthony Bourdain was to try and embrace it. In his classic 2001 travelogue, he shares his experiences with glorious and unusual foods all over the world. Bourdain’s prose is raw and real, and his vivid descriptions draw us into even the most viscerally strange moments. Whether he’s witnessing a pig slaughter in Portugal, ingesting a Vietnamese cobra’s still-beating heart, or sampling the potentially fatal puffer fish in Japan, Bourdain is a consistently delightful and wonderstruck guide. The connections he made with the people and places he visited around the globe are palpable. Read this and fuel your hunger for new experiences.
