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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach | 
 enlarge | Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 6840
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 7.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1596914475
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.013
EAN: 9781596914476
ASIN: 1596914475
Publication Date: October 15, 2007
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Product Description
An illustrated, behind-the-scenes travel journal of Anthony Bourdain’s global adventures.
More than just a companion to the hugely popular show, No Reservations is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels. The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and mementos with Bourdain’s outrageous commentary on what really happens when you give a bad-boy chef an open ticket to the world. Want to know where to get good fatty crab in Rangoon? How to order your reindeer medium rare? How to tell a Frenchman that his baguette is invading your personal space? This is your book. For any Bourdain fan, this is an indispensable opportunity to hit the road with the man himself.
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 Backstage Pass April 25, 2008
Do you like food? Travel? A wiseass chain smoking New York host? Then this is for you! A great book by a really cool guy, about a really cool show. It's an overview of places around the world Tony Bourdain and crew visited and featured on No Reservations, and it's filled with information that never, ever, EVER could have made it on the air. True fans of No Reservations might get more out of this than a reader who has never watched the show but anyone can pick this up and catch the tone and flavor of one of cable TV's most uniquely audacious hour-long events.
Nice book but meant for fans of the TV show February 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're new to the works of Anthony Bourdain as well as his Travel Channel TV show "No Reservations" then this book might not be the best place for you to start. While the volume itself is a very handsome and well-produced book with oodles of great photos and minimal text, this particular title was written for the fan of Bourdain's ongoing TV series with plenty of behind-the-scenes glimpses at the adventures in getting his show made as well as snippets of appreciation toward his beloved crew. Fans of the show will find much to like as each country visited in the show's 3 year span is re-visited with familiar still shots of memorable moments we've seen before as well as new material. The highlights of the book though occur at the very end where Bourdain hilariously rates the best and worst toilets he and his crew have encountered in their world travels.
 Only a picture book February 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I should have perused this in more detail at the bookstore, but alas I got too excited to see another book by Mr. Bourdain. I finally looked at it this weekend and much to my disdain it is primarily pictures. Nice pictures, but only pictures nonetheless. There is some minor text but not enough. I was hoping to find out more back stories about what happened, biting commentary (related to the episode not FoddTV "chefs")maybe lists of places from the show, recommendations of restaurants to eat at, etc.
I am a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain and of No Reservations, this book just didn't cut it for me.
The Companion to the Show... February 10, 2008
Yes, this is THE companion book to one of the most awesome shows on television right now. I was slightly disappointed that there was not more commentary, however, one redeeming factor and a reason you should have this book is for the "Best and Worst Bathrooms" around the world. Makes you glad for the dingy porcelain throne you have or jealous you don't live in Japan!
Chocked full of photos taken during Bourdain's wild tours around the globe, this is a fantastic coffee table book for chefs across the board. Unfortunately, the book does not do the show justice and if you ever have the chance to partake of Bourdain's scathing wit and alcoholic charm, please do so! And yes, I hate Rachel Ray too my friend...I hate her too.
An Entertaining Photo Album of Bourdain's Latest Global Adventures January 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In this breezy book, there is an amusing photo of an In-n-Out Double-Double Burger with a pile of fries amid far more exotic dishes highlighted in the montage of images that constitute a chapter appropriately called "Food Porn". What I especially like about the photos is how real the dishes look since they have not been immaculately presented by a Williams-Sonoma food stylist. The food looks exactly how you would expect to see it if you were to order it at a street kiosk in Kolkata or a back-alley café in Hong Kong. This laissez-faire attitude accurately captures the spirit of this companion book to Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations TV series now in its fourth season on the Travel Channel.
Anyone who has read Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly or The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, or seen his previous series, A Cook's Tour, on the Food Network, already knows his unique blend of streetwise sarcasm and culinary adventurousness. Fortunately, Bourdain doesn't alter his style one iota with his latest entry and immerses himself even more into the idiosyncratic cultures and customs that made his previous global travels so enjoyable. The book is, more or less, a photo album of stills taken from the show organized by geographic region. You see photos such as a warthog being pulled apart for cooking by Namibian tribesmen, a roast pig on glorious display in a Balinese street market, tireless workers in a duck processing plant in Montreal, and even what's left of the defunct Twinkie factory in Cleveland. In between, he inserts more personal photos of himself alongside the local inhabitants.
On top of it all, Bourdain contributes his characteristic blurbs albeit briefly - sometimes obnoxious but usually quite amusing in his acid-tongued belligerence. It wouldn't be Bourdain if he wasn't a snarky jerk, but he compensates with his audacious palette and his innate ability to bond with most everyone he meets no matter how trying the circumstance. You have to respect a man who will try anything once, whether it's fourteen courses of foie gras or a sizable hunk of raw seal. Ironically, the most interesting chapter has nothing to do with food as it involves his inopportune presence in Beirut when the Israel-Lebanon conflict broke out. He vividly recounts how he and his crew were evacuated by the U.S. Marines amid skirmishes with Hezbollah supporters. By all means, experience the show first for a more complete sensory experience (except for taste, of course), but the book is still a fine keepsake of Bourdain's cocksure culinary audacity.
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