Originally Posted by Moderator2
It's on John Street a block east of Broadway. I'm suddenly having withdrawal pains just thinking about the restaurant's mussels.
He wrote a book about the filming of the series, also entitled "A Cook's Tour". Slightly different then the series, it is profane and can be quite funny in parts. For FT'ers without a burning passion to learn about the restaurant business, it might be more appealing then "Kitchen Confidential" (although I recommend reading "A Cook's Tour" second, regardless).
Bourdain is a wonderful non-fiction writer. His fiction is dreadful. ( I believe there are three and I have read them all). A Cook's Tour is excellent in that it was written in conjunction with the TV series. Of interest, is when he writes about having to reshoot a scene because he was so wasted.Even more interesting when you see the series. IIRC, after traveling the world searching for the "perfect meal" he found what he was looking for at "The French Laundry." The chef even made tobacco-flavored ice cream for him, given his well known addiction to cigarettes (among other things).His last book , "Les Halles" cookbook was very poorly reviewed. Evidently, it was laced with profanities and dreadful recipes which would be useless in the ordinary kitchen.