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"Les Halles Executive Chef Anthony Bourdain travels the globe reliving earlier gastronomic experiences and questing for new culinary milestones; some of those include dining on lamb testicle, snake bile wine, haggis, fried worms, sautéed ant eggs, braised bat, and partially incubated duck egg with beak and feathers present. He will try anything once although his limitations are pushed several times. His edible journey is not all vile and disgusting comestibles as he feasts on spring rolls, caviar, oysters, fine wine, tagine of mutton, fresh fish, couscous, dark bread, borscht, tapas, shrimp-kebobs, beer, vodka, and other savory and delectable foodstuffs. He has with him a camera crew to film the proceedings for a series on The Food Network.
Mr. Bourdain experiences the exhilaration of new cultures and cuisines with remarkably good cheer. Often the portions of the book of greatest interest are the descriptions of exotic locations and lifestyles. He dines on whole lamb in the Sahara arriving by camel caravan; he takes a Russian sauna complete with willow switch flogging before plunging into icy, frigid waters; and he dines on pho, baguettes, and coffee aboard a floating sampan in Vietnam. These once in a lifetime experiences are not lost on the author either. Pleasantly, Mr. Bourdain has toned down the false macho bravado and cavalier use of sexual imagery in his writing as he is humbled by the ages old traditions and ancient cultures he encounters. Often he is humiliated to be barging into the lives or normal people with cameramen in tow. "
David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- chef
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Food
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- chef
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- wild
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 10 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Southeast Asia
- Japan
- Russia
Africa
Yes
Kind of Africa:
- Arabic Africa
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
- resort/hotel
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- very happy
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- eccentric personalities
- Dry-cynical
- sarcastic/sardonic
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- capitalism
- war
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 51%-75% of book
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