Slacks for Ella Funt

We’ve been watching Anthony Bourdain’s show on the Travel channel occasionally and enjoying it, so I decided to pick up his book. It’s a bit of a rarity among food books. Most food writers tend to fetishize and obsess over the flavors, colors, and textures of food. Bourdain seems to have gone into cooking and restaurants not out of love of food, but as a means for living a lifestyle of drugs, drinking, sex, and macho. Essentially, he seems to have picked it as an alternative to being a rock star. I was pretty entertained by his stories of excess and craziness in various restaurants along the way. The only complaint I had was that the book seemed to be compiled of essays and the chronology of events was a bit confusing.