Anthony Bourdain

A couple years ago, we had the opportunity to hear and see Anthony Bourdain at a local bookstore. He was talking about a new cookbook that he had completed and obviously hoped that people would purchase.
Bourdain is an interesting character and now with food celebrities like Gordon Ramsay, it is not so hard to believe the interesting language that he uses. Anthony Bourdain does not yell at his staff but he does express his displeasure with some events in his life with expletives.
One of the book purchases that I made in the past year was No Reservations by Bourdain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=3415409 It is the background to his television show which was presented on the Travel Channel since it focused on travel more than food itself. I enjoyed many of the pictures in the but also he revealed that it was not always comfortable and glamourous filming a show about food in remote parts and not so remote parts of the world. He described the plight of the crew in Beirut when the bombing started a few years ago and their efforts to escape. Bourdain, who also wrote the Nasty Bits which I will check for in the library and Kitchen Confidential which started his writing career, is quite a character and not a pretentious cook. Worth a read.