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Not his best book by a long shot - Rated
Anthony Bourdain has produced some wonderful television programmes aimed out the outer fringes of culinary experience. The sort of person whose idea of a travel guide is showing a meal of snake bile and wichity grub.
When I got this book I had hoped for more of the same. What we actually have is largely a collection of photos of his travels around the world while making his programmes accompanied by a short text telling us how wonderful the people were. Very little about food, in fact very little about anything. Now Anthony Bourdain admits that his journeys are not a real quest in search of the ideal meal or anything so ideallistic. Rather they are a foodies journey to collect as much bragging power as possible when he wants to gross someone out about worst meals possible (while of course collecting a few very good meals en route).
To be fair in the introduction he admits that he was not trying, as so many TV tie ins do, to just reproduce the original programme. However what we are left with is little more than his holiday snaps. It's not large enough and glossy enough to be a coffee table book, it's not detailed enough to be a travelogue, it doesn't reproduce the programme well enough to be a foodie book. If you want a TV tie in buy some DVDs, if you want a travel book buy some rough guides and if you want a book on food then Anthony Bourdain has written some far better books than this.
Too many pictures, not enough words - Rated
This is a coffee-table picture book, rather than the next proper Bourdain book. It seems to have been cobbled together in time for the Christmas season. The photos are excellent, though, but if you have seen the TV shows, you've probably seen most of this already.
My advice? For a Bourdain fan's present, buy them the DVDs of the series.
