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The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
Anthony Bourdain
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Chef and author Anthony Bourdain described his first book, Kitchen Confidential , as an "obnoxious and over-testosteroned" account of his life in the restaurant business. Still, the book remained on the New York Timesbestseller list for weeks. Now the food world's outrageous bad boy is at it again with his new book, A Cook's Tour , the chronicle of his planet-circling jaunt in search of the ultimate meal. Mr. Bourdain likes his adventure with a generous dose of risk and an occasional touch of the bizarre—like dodging Cambodian minefields to have cocktails in Khmer Rouge territory and eating poisonous blowfish in Japan. By comparison, the normally over-the-top Jane and Michael Stern are…