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Title: not up to bourdain's usual standard
Review: Bourdain is a brilliant writer, but his heart doesn't seem to be in this book. It feels as if someone asked him to write this book as an assignment, his usual style of pop-culture loaded hyperbole only takes off in a few chapters. Several entire chapters are filler copied from other sources.'Kitchen Confidential' and 'Cook's Tour' are definately his most inspired books. If you have read those as well as 'The Nasty Bits' and are hungry for more I highly recommmend his crime fiction novel 'Bone in Throat'.
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