Hi again!

Come join us here on the message board nexst month for a hopefully rousing disussion of Anthony Bourdain's 'A Cook's Tour.'

You can find the guide here: http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/cooks_tour1.asp

I just got a copy, after watching Mr. Bourdain's current food/travel show on The Travel Channel, and having read other of hos books, I think this will be an amusing read indeed!

Please, find a copy and join us for the month of June, reading 'A Cook's Tour' together. Hope to see you here!

--Anne

Hi Anne,

I picked up a copy of A Cook’s Tour at the library yesterday. Looking forward to reading it – I have not read anything by Bourdain before. After skimming the first few pages I surmised that this will be an interesting and humorous read!

I finished this book last week. Humorous! Bourdain is an adventurous foodie and will eat anything including pork blood cake, tripe, calf’s head (this story made me laugh the hardest), cooked baby birds in the shell – including feathers, and sheep testicles to name a few! He seems to drink and smoke to excess so I did wonder how accurate his assessments of some of his meals were. I haven’t read Kitchen Confidential but may pick it up at the library some time this summer.

Anyone else read it?

Hi everyone!

I think I have loved nearly anything Mr. Bourdain has written. He's got a way of making his prose feel as if he's just sitting there talking to you, and he describes things well enough that some of his culinary escapades left me a bit... well, lets say I am not about to try a few of the things he said were 'actually not bad'.

I have enjoyed his series on both Food Network and currently on the travel channel as well -- he's got a way of making even a normal situation humerous without denigrating the people or cultures he is trying to visit.

If you've read the book-- which meal do you think you personally would not mind sitting down to enjoy? Which would you NEVER ever try?

I was a bit surprised, but I think I'd actually like to try some of the fried bugs he talks about -- and this from someone who freaks when a creepy crawly enters the house! I dunno... ven the termite eggs didn;t sound really... bad... just something I'd like to try without first knowing they were bug derived to fool my early warning inner censor.

The dish you could not PAY me to eat? The whole boiled duck embryo thing that Tony claimed wasn;t as bad as it sounded. Having seen the show AND read the book... um... I'll pass, thank you.

Hi there!

Is anyone else catching the 'Travel Channel's' new series with ANthony Bourdain? It really echoes 'A Cook's Tour' in the way it is done, but is an hour rather than a half hour, and since it is the Travel Channel, not Food Network, Tony can talk about the culture of the places he is visiting, and not just the food -- although he goes on about that, as well.

I'm loving each new episode, and wondering if anyone else thinks it is rather like having 'A Cook's Tour' on weekly.

--Anne