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| A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines | 
 enlarge | Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 8533
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0060012781
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.013
EAN: 9780060012786
ASIN: 0060012781
Publication Date: November 1, 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Condition May 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book arrived in a timely fashion and was in pristine condition. Great price, too. Thanks.
 It's a hangover March 15, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I buy a cook's book it's to learn about exquisite cuisine food of different places culture and not to learn about different hangovers of the writer
Stirs up an appetite! January 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Reading this book on my daily commute certainly stirred up an appetite by the time I reached my destination!
The colourful speech and frank tone of Kitchen Confidential is also present in this book, and still very entertaining. However, I found the book more like a collection of short stories than one continuous piece, as it jumped from country to country, and sometimes back to a previous country.
There's some discussion of the culture that surrounds the food, but it certainly doesn't have the detail that he provided about professional cooking.
My favourite aspect to this book is the flair and passion for describing food, done so well with imaginative descriptions that I feel like I can almost taste it. If restaurant menus were all written with such expertise, I'd by hypnotized into always eating out!
It's a delicious world out there January 29, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Anthony Bourdain has a sweet job. Traveling the world, sampling its culinary delights...its the kind of job that one would never even imagine exists until someone creates it. And it is a bit odd that he should have this job. Anthony Bourdain is not a great writer, although he manages to turn a decent phrase. I have no idea if he is a great cook or not, but by his own admission he is not one of the greats. He is a great traveler, and has enough courage and sense of adventure to give it all a try, even though things don't always go well.
Which is pretty much the same with "A Cook's Tour". I have never seen TV program that the book is based on, but I am a big fan of "No Reservations" so I suspected something along the same lines. This book follows much the same format of "No Reservations", with Bourdain hitting various culinary spots across the world and trying what they have to offer, no matter what that might be. A whole pig in Portugal. Haggis in Scotland. All the goodness Mexico has to offer. And of course the infamous cobra's heart in Vietnam. He doesn't like everything he tries, but he tries everything that is offered.
Its good. Its interesting. One of the great things about Bourdain's style of travel-eating is that we could do it too. He doesn't hit the high-priced, pretty and polished restaurants that most readers of the books could never afford. He hits the street stalls, the home cooking, and wonders at the delights of the common meals that make everyone happy. I have been to a few of the places showcased on "A Cook's Tour", and it makes for a nice walk down memory lane to think of breakfast vodka in Russia, or deep-fried pizza in Glasgow.
Strangely enough, I think the one place he didn't get it right was in Japan, which is where I happen to live. I was looking forward to see what he would have to say about the place, and what delights he tried and what he thought. Instead, he had a traditional kaiseki dinner at a ryokan in Atami, accompanied by no less than two geisha. We are talking probably a multi-thousand dollar event here, something experienced only by the very super-rich of the Japanese populace. Not exactly "eating local", and a bit of a disappointment.
Another home run by Bourdain! January 24, 2008
Yet another great book by Anthony Bourdain. Reading it makes me want to drop everything and travel somewhere and enjoy the blissfulness of enjoying food all over the world!
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