Interviews with...
Anthony Bourdain
 Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain
Finally, a cookbook from the best selling author of the kitchen expose, Kitchen
Confidential. With his usual wit and ability to tell it like it is, yes, there
are a few insults thrown about, Bourdain gives us straightforward and informative
bistro cooking. Hardcover, 304 pp, $49.95.
Cookbook: The first album/CD/eight track you bought?
AB: Black is Black by Las Bravos.
Cookbook: What was your first car?
AB: I've never owned a car.
Cookbook: Your favourite junk food?
AB: Papaya King hot dog.
Cookbook: What kitchen gadget, or piece of equipment can't you live without?
AB: Offset serated knife.
Cookbook: Your favourite ingredient, or food?
AB: Pork.
Cookbook: Most over-rated ingredient, or food?
AB: Truffle oil.
Cookbook: What was the first cookbook you used?
Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child.
Cookbook: Your favourite authors, doesn't have to be cookbook authors?
AB: Graham Greene, George Higgins, A. J. Liebling, Nabakov.
Cookbook: Your favourite city?
AB: New York.
Cookbook: What is your greatest extravagance/indulgence?
AB: Masa restaurant.
 Cookbook: Your favourite movie?
AB: Goodfellas.
Cookbook: What was your first job?
AB: Painting murals in a funhouse at Palisades Park.
Cookbook: What kind of music do you like?
AB: Mid-seventies punk, funk.
Cookbook: Your favourite sports team?
AB: Yankees, Yankees, Yankees!
Cookbook: Your pet peeve when dining out?
AB: Too much information from waiters, I don't need to know your astrological
sign! And don't put the napkin back on my lap.
Cookbook: Your favourite drink?
AB: Guiness in Dublin.
Cookbook: If you could change one thing in the food & wine industry what would
it be?
AB: Mexican kitchen workers would be given credit for
keeping industry afloat.
Cookbook: Who has been the biggest influence on your career?
AB: Reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
in Rolling Stone. Seeing Marco Pierre White.
Cookbook: What four people, alive or dead, would you invite to dinner? (assuming,
or maybe not, you would invite your significant other to have six around
the dinner table!)
AB: Louise Brooks, Kim Philby, Graham Greene, Ho Chi Minh,
Orson Wells.
 A Cook's Tour
Anthony Bourdain
One more time Anthony Bourdain sets off to uncover the underworld of cooking;
now he has paired it with travel. This book has adventures in 30 different cities
and describes food that is better discovered on the page rather than on the plate.
$29.95.
 Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
The tales of sex, drugs and rock 'n'roll behind closed kitchen kitchen doors
has restaurant workers nodding their heads knowingly. On the other hand, after
reading this the general public may think twice about dining out.
Website: http://www.anthonybourdain.com/
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