Nasty Bits : Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones

Published by Bloomsbury, 2006, softcover, 289 pages. condition: very good.

For all those Anthony Bourdain fans who are hungering for more, here is Nasty Bits - a collection of his journalism. As usual Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn't want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever. The Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike. 

Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. Its about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting your fate entirely to someone else. Its about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a warm bath. Its about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. When that happens to a professional chef, its a rare and beautiful thing.