April #BookspinBingo card! My #Bookspin is Bourdain (excited to finally have the impetus to read this Kindle book I bought on a deal ages ago!) and my #DoubleSpin is Green Dot (an ARC I won from a Goodreads giveaway a few months ago).
pickWhy did I read a cookbook cover-to-cover that I can‘t eat 90% of the recipes in? I‘m still not sure, but it‘s Tony. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ Is this going to be your go-to cookbook? No, unless you live in a city with access to a lot wider variety and better quality ingredients than I have in my large town, and you have more speed and fluency in the kitchen than I do. He scores point on not using complicated equipment though. #borrownotbuy on #hoopla!
#Scarathlon #NaturaLitsy Foood
🍲 https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/cheddar-ale-soup/
☕️ https://portandfin.com/maple-cinnamon-latte/
🎃 https://www.recipetineats.com/maple-bacon-pumpkin-tart-recipe/
🍞 https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/spiced-pumpkin-bread.html
🧀 https://www.splendidtable.org/story/2016/11/08/anthony-bourdains-macaroni-and-ch...
I love a good cookbook such as tagged.
Warm fragrant foods for fall. Ginger tea too!
pickThis was really good, especially on audio, despite the lack of structure - it‘s really just a collection of anecdotes and sound bites about Bourdain, arranged mostly chronologically. I‘ve read so many think pieces about him that I found it both refreshing and revealing. The last sections are tough to get through, but I feel like I learned more about him and why his life ended so tragically. I miss his voice so much, still.
Worked on these crewmates while listening to this audiobook. A very impressive list of voices make up this oral biography of Anthony Bourdain.
pick🎧 I only know his books. I never saw him on tv.
He narrated his own books. He was a fabulous story teller. I loved this book but I found the continuous mention of his past heroin addiction almost annoying!
Full cast made it interesting!
If you want a fascinating, entertaining, fun story, read Kitchen Confidential, if you want a brutally honest expose about his personal & work life, try this.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/4
pickI wanted to like this book more than I actually did. Woolever talked to many of Bourdain‘s family, friends, and associates and I understand that this is an oral biography, but I needed a narrative thread — not just quotes strung together under headings that vaguely tie them together. Because I finished and it was interesting, I‘m giving it a low pick. I think it would be better as an audiobook.
My husband had a productive but wearying day in PT, so he‘s really tired. I‘m letting him sleep and am sitting here in bed reading Bourdain. I love my flowers.
pickThere is a moment late in Woolever's bio where one of the subjects calls Bourdain a cultural journalist. For me, in addition to being an accomplished writer, this is a great way of thinking of Bourdain. Woolever interviewed numerous subjects for her work (so many in fact that there's a chart at the beginning to keep in mind their relationship to Bourdain) so inevitably there are conflicting ideas presented about Bourdain, but what is👇
