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A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal Hardcover - 2001

by Anthony Bourdain

Dodging minefields in Cambodia or diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world over in search of the ultimate meal. The bestselling author of "Kitchen Confidential" loves traveling as much as cooking, and "A Cook's Tour" is the shotgun marriage of his two greatest passions. Photo inserts.

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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.

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THE PIG IS GETTING fat.

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  • Title A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
  • Author Anthony Bourdain
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 308
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date December 7, 2001
  • ISBN 9781582341408 / 1582341400
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.6 x 1.03 in (24.08 x 16.76 x 2.62 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Food, Cookery
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001052428
  • Dewey Decimal Code 641.013

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Citations

  • BookPage, 12/01/2001, Page 6
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2001, Page 1590
  • New York Times, 12/08/2002, Page 67
  • People Weekly, 01/14/2002, Page 40
  • Vanity Fair, 12/01/2001, Page 136

About the author

Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, andGone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary; and the cookbooks Appetites andLes Halles Cookbook. Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy Award-winning No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC.

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