A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he's seen and what he's seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confe...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Life-changing food adventures around the world.From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishes us not only physically, but intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually too. It can be a gift that enables a traveller to survive, a doorway into the heart of a tribe...

"Far from being just a gimmicky marketing ploy, Treme . . . is an engaging representation of the cuisine of modern-day New Orleans . . . Fascinating." — The Austin ChronicleInspired by David Simon's award-winning HBO series Treme, this celebration of the culinary spirit of post-Katrina New Orleans features recipes and tributes from the characters, real and fictional, who highlight the Crescent City's rich foodways. From chef Janette Desau...

A journalist and blogger takes us on a colorful and spicy gastronomic tour through Viet Nam in this entertaining, offbeat travel memoir, with a foreword by Anthony Bourdain.Growing up in a small town in northern England, Graham Holliday wasn't keen on travel. But in his early twenties, a picture of Hanoi sparked a curiosity that propelled him halfway across the globe. Graham didn't want to be a tourist in an alien land, though; he was determined to live it. An ordinary guy who like...

Are you really worried about a kidney transplant, battling with chronic kidney disease, or treatment for comorbidities? You could dodge all those medical by changing your diet - would you go for it?A dietary change can be overwhelming. Nobody wants to give up the meal they love, but when you found out how it can take away the serious pain and discomfort of kidney malfunction, safely, and without the costs of medical procedures, and expensive treatments, then it might just be for yo...

"This body of work, these 30 years of reviews of dining in North Dakota, is in a sense a history of dining in America." —Anthony BourdainIn Grand Forks, North Dakota, a small town where professors moonlight as farmers, farmers moonlight as football coaches, and everyone loves hockey, one woman covered the culinary scene for more than twenty-five years: Marilyn Hagerty. In her weekly Eatbeat column in the local paper, Marilyn gave the denizens of Grand Forks the stra...

'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator**THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY, STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA JONES.The definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, including unpublished and never-before-seen material, with an Introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe.**Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people – and he had many sides....

The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations: 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh.THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY, STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA JONES.'More gripping than a Stephen King novel' Sunday Times'Bawdy, bolshie and bursting with energy' Daily Mail'Nothing wi...

From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, this wonderful book sees Bourdain travelling the world discovering exotic foods.Dodging minefields in Cambodia, diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world over in search of the ultimate meal. The only thing Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling, and A Cook's Tour is the shotgun marriage ...

20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY FERGUS HENDERSON, CO- FOUNDER OF THE ST. JOHN RESTAURANTTHE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY, STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA JONES.'Anthony Bourdain, like the Sex Pistols, created a movement not a following'– Marco Pierre White'A book of the greatest hits of French food, nothing comes close'– Matthew Ryle*'L...

'As ferociously rude as anything Bourdain has done before' Guardian'Terrific ... His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings' Telegraph'Bourdain has insight, access and good taste, and he's a naturally engaging writer' New York TimesTHE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY, STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA JONESAnthony Bourdain...

Bestselling author, TV host, and chef Anthony Bourdain reveals the hearty, delicious recipes of Les Halles, the classic New York City French bistro where he got his start.Before stunning the world with his bestselling Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, host of the celebrated TV shows Parts Unknown and No Reservations, spent years serving some of the best French brasserie food in New York. With its no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmospher...