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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
Not his best book by a long shot Anthony Bourdain has produced some wonderful television programmes aimed out the outer fringes of culinary experience. The sort of person whose idea of a travel guide is showing a meal of snake bile and wichity grub. When I got this book I had hoped for more of the same. What we actually have is largely a collection of photos of his travels around the world while making his programmes accompanied by a short text telling us how wonderful the people were. Very little about food, in fact very little about... more info
Too many pictures, not enough words This is a coffee-table picture book, rather than the next proper Bourdain book. It seems to have been cobbled together in time for the Christmas season. The photos are excellent, though, but if you have seen the TV shows, you've probably seen most of this already.
My advice? For a Bourdain fan's present, buy them the DVDs of the series.
