The only thing it’s going to do for you these days is increase your odds of getting mugged. That crowd-sourced bonanza has made the printed guidebook an anachronism. Photograph: Discovery Channel/Rex The co-author of World Travel: An Irreverent Guide reveals the places and dishes at the. In early 2017, when they began kicking around the idea of another project, Woolever noted that. It’s easier to find an abundance of online information on the best chicken rice in such-and-such covered food court in Singapore than it is to figure how to adequately save for retirement. Anthony Bourdain in his No Reservations television series, 2005. So pack your bags and don’t forget World Travel by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever. I could watch those on a loop.Īside from sports news and general bile, no topic is better served by the internet than where to eat. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind. It did have the salutary effect of sending me back to his shows. As Anthony Bourdain once famously said, Travel changes you. Reading what Bourdain once said aloud just made me miss Bourdain. Anthony Bourdain beloved chef, journalist, TV show host, and champion of human connection was always a storyteller first, and when he died in 2018, he was at work on a guide to. Along with Martin Scorsese, he was the early 21st-century’s master of the voiceover monologue.īut untethered from the man, even his best lines land flat on the page. The result is something between a Frommer’s Guide and Schopenhauer’s Essays and Aphorisms.īourdain was a better writer than he was a TV host, which is saying something. Using scripts he wrote for his shows, she has compiled a compendium of Bourdain’s thoughts about the places he visited. His former assistant, Laurie Woolever, talked to him about the specifics of it for only an hour.

World Travel was a vague idea when Bourdain died by suicide in 2018.

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