
- Publisher:
- PENGUIN
- Year of publication:
- 2002
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-5821-7
- Pages:
- 288
A COOK'S TOUR
IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT MEAL
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Anthony Bourdain, life-long line cook and bestselling author of KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, sets off to eat his way around the world. But being Anthony Bourdain, this was never going to be a conventional culinary tour. Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, and travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia (Pailin). Other stops include dining with gangsters in Russia, a medieval pig slaughter and feast in northern Portugal, the Basque All Male Gastronomique Society in Saint Sebastian, rural Mexico with his Mexican souschef, a pilgrimage to the French Laundry in the Napa Valley and a return to his roots in the tiny fishing village of La Teste, where he first ate an oyster as a child. Written with the inimitable machismo and humour that has made Tony Bourdain such a sensation, A COOK'S TOUR is an adventure story sure to give you indigestion.