While I was not a Bourdain mega-fan prior to his death, I did always appreciate and respect him as someone striving to live an authentic life. He seemed to take a lot of joy out of wandering, and to have little patience for artifice. I like that. Another of his goals seems to have been to get people to veer off of their normally trodden paths and to try something new, just to see what was out there. Even though we’re very different kinds of […]
Cookbook, picture book, and goodbye
Like a lot of people upon hearing of the sudden and unexpected death of Anthony Bourdain, I decided to read some of his work. I’d read Kitchen Confidential several years ago, so I didn’t feel the need to re-read that (plus, there were quite a few holds on the local library copies already). What was rather surprisingly available was his last cookbook Appetites; this worked well for me since I’d never read one of his cookbooks before. Appetites is written by the same opinionated fearless […]
Hi. I’m Badkittyuno, and I’ve fallen behind again…
Hi. Sorry. I really thought I was like 10 reviews behind and it turned out to actually be 19. So then I started up this list of reviews…and didn’t post it…and now I’m 26 behind. I would blame my kids/divorce/life, but really — I’d much rather read than write! Also, I’ve been working from home a lot and doing laundry instead of writing reviews (which is what I do when I get bored at the office), so that’s not helping. Anyway, here’s 26 brief reviews […]
The Book of Things I Like to Eat: Reviewing Anthony Bourdain’s Appetites
Breaking the law, I know, but my first Cannonball review shall be… a cook-book. But before I get accused of cheating and ex-communicated from Cannonball Church, if my plan was to tackle something easy… boy, did I fuck up. I had to cook, savages. I mean, can’t analyze the plot or setting or character development, because, well, there isn’t any. So you have to review the recipes. There is no, “Does the Waygu beef become the man it always wanted to be”, or “Does the […]