A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal [Inscribed]

Anthony Bourdain

ISBN 10: 1582341400 / ISBN 13: 9781582341408

Published by Bloomsbury USA, 2001

About this Item

Signed by the author on the title page. Jacket shows light edge wear. Hardcover with shelf wear. Pristine interior.

Seller Inventory # 001670

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal [Inscribed]
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582341400
• ISBN 13: 9781582341408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 2.54W x 16.256H x 23.622D centimeters 2.54 centimeters width by 16.256 centimeters height by 23.622 centimeters depth
• Weight: 590 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Signed & Inscribed

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Anthony Bourdain was the New York Times-bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, which sold over a million copies, Medium Raw, A Cook's Tour and The Nasty Bits, the cookbooks Appetites and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. His work appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018.