A Cook's Tour (book)
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | |
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A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, sometimes later published as A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, is a
television series featuring Bourdain for the Food Network
.
Locations
Bourdain's travels included
Napa Valley
.
Foods
He tries such exotic dishes as
duck embryo
with half-formed bones and feathers.
Award
The book was named 2002 Food Book of the Year by the British Guild of Food Writers.[1]
Title
The title is derived from "Cook's Tour", a British idiomatic phrase meaning a brief or cursory guide to a subject or place. Its origin is in the trips organized by Thomas Cook in the 19th century.[2]
References
- ^ "Guild of Food Writers Award Winners 2002". Guild of Food Writers Award Winners 2002. Archived from the original on 2008-12-07. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
- ^ "Cook's Tour". reference.com. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
External links
- New York Times review
- A Cook's Tour (Chapter 1)
- A Cook's Tour on Open Library at the Internet Archive
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