Vitale was a longtime producer and director of Bourdain‘s Parts Unknown and No Reservations. I fell down a bit of a Bourdain rabbit hole over Christmas and decided to reread this as well as watching iconic episodes and the film Roadrunner. If you want bts info, this is a great book, but two things struck me hard on this second read.
1. Tom was one of the few people who talked to Asia after Tony‘s death. She was so roundly blamed for it ⬇️