Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites.
The result is a home-cooking, home-entertaining Cookbook like no other, with personal favorites from his own kitchen and from his travels, translated into an effective battle plan that will help you terrify your guests with your breathtaking efficiency..
Years of prep lists and the hyper-organization necessary for a restaurant kitchen, however, have caused him, in his words, to have morphed into a psychotic, anally retentive, bad-tempered Ina Garten.
After years of traveling more than 200 days a year, he now enjoys entertaining at home.
Bourdain has, in recent years, become the father of a little girl--a role he has embraced with enthusiasm.
Once the supposed bad boy of cooking, Mr.
Bourdain\'s opinion) know how to cook.
Appetites, his first Cookbook in more than ten years, boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a tight repertoire of personal favorites--dishes that everyone should (at least in Mr.
These days, however, if he\'s cooking, it\'s for family and friends.
And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown , he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others.
Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites
