Cook's Tour In Search of the Perfect Meal

The only thing Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling, & A Cook's TourÓ is the marriage of his two greatest passions. The book chronicles the unpredictable & tantalizing adventures & misadventures of America's favorite chef. He crisscrosses the world sampling local delicacies from the sublime to the bizarre, such as Fugu, a poisonous blowfish in Japan; a restaurant & gun club in Khmer Rouge territory in Cambodia; a meal of live cobra heart in Saigon, Vietnam; a pig cooked for him by a Portuguese village; Moscow & London, the Sahara & Mexico, & the lochs of Scotland. He discovers again & again the importance of community of kinship, & the power of food to bring people together. This book is the basis for a 22-part TV series.Bourdain, Anthony is the author of 'Cook's Tour In Search of the Perfect Meal', published 2001 under ISBN 9780756781606 and ISBN 0756781604.