A Cook's Tour: in search of the perfect meal, Anthony Bourdain

Melissa recommended it. I read Kitchen Confidential six months ago on Tracy's advice, and this is the little I wrote about it:

Fun read. Some interesting bits and pieces (don't order brunch on Sundays or fish on Monday, as it'll all be left-overs from Fri & Sat —that sort of thing—and some advice on cookware, too) and amusing stories. Some quite funny bits. Anthony's kitchen ends up sounding like an army barracks, though.

This one is different. It contains the same amount of swearing and mix of pop culture and not-so-current events references, but instead of with average American restaurant kitchens, it deals mostly with eating weird stuff in exotic places.

While researching the book (read: traveling and eating), Anthony was followed around by a T.V. crew. I kinda wish I had cable again, just to catch this on food network: I wonder whether the T.V. series feels more chronological than the book. Half the book is about Vietnam and how wonderful the food and people are, but it's not a continuous half. It's more...every other chapter. Did he travel back and forth to Vietnam six times? I doubt it, but I don't know. The book could have been edited a little more carefully on smaller scale, too: there are some weird repetitions, sometimes within a paragraph.

Finished January 9th, 274 pages. Doesn't count, since it was from the library.