As a fan of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly and a lover of travel, I was excited and a bit confused to see a new Anthony Bourdain book set to come out three years after his untimely death. My assumption was this was a project he'd had half done - maybe a first draft submitted or something like that - and subsequently some clean-up work was required prior to turning it into a posthumously released book. Sadly, this was not the case.As Bourdain's assistant Laurie Woolov...

Anthony Bourdain's show "No Reservations" and his other shows featured his irreverent humor and his biting observations. Though Bourdain has taken another path in his journey, many of us can still hear his voice. This book, which was in progress before his untimely demise, attempts to harness that voice to a sort of rambling travel guide. At best, this book offers us readers quotes from Bourdain's voice overs. Itlso offers a kind of travelogue and sometimes interviews with fortunate or unfortuna...

Well, what a piece of crap! Not by Bourdain but kinda stitched together from tv programs, hearsay and post-it notes and narrated by his assistant who in each city takes a break to let his brother or someone narrate with a lot of "F*ck this!, F*ck that! and other oh so with it curse words to (I guess) make us think he's channeling AB and trying to justify the "Irreverent" in the title. I agonized through Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Sydney, and Vienna and found out how much a cab ride from the airpor...

This is a collection of quotes from Bourdain's shows supplemented with airport information, what hotels he stayed in and a smattering of original writings from some of the people he worked with on his shows. It's a very disappointing book. I can't believe how brazen the co-author Laurie Woolever is - the Bourdain text is taken straight from his shows and not from her interviews as she claims in the Introduction! There is more value to be gained from just watching reruns of Parts Unknown or No Re...

Well, I didn't really read it; I just skimmed parts.But it isn't really a book, it's a collection of restaurant reviews linked by airport info. It's the bare bones info for a future book, thrown together after his death.My only pleasure was the fact that this was a library copy and I hadn't wasted my money.

Reviews for this book have been polarizing. Bourdain was a memoirist and storyteller, so people expected (understandably) that this would be another memoir style book, full of stories and compelling prose, about Tony's travels. It very much is not that, and many people are disappointed. Apparently Tony was supposed to supplement the book with essays, but he died before he wrote them. There are lots of personal reflections, and some fantastic quotes, but still nothing resembling storytelling. So

Look, I know everyone misses the great Anthony Bourdain, his death was a shock to us all, and he’s influenced an untold number of people in how and why they travel…all good things……and I really, really wanted to like this book, and looked forward to having it motivate me to plan a post-COVID trip, but I was sorely disappointed.From the intro, we learn that it was conceived while Bourdain was still alive back in March 2017, and it’s admirable that his “lieutenant” Laurie Woolever wanted to comple...

This is not written by Anthony Bourdain but by his assistant Laurie Woolever. It mainly consists of Anthony's quotes about particular places and information about restaurants, hotels he visited in that place joined together by information on how to get there. Occasionally there are short essays from Bourdain's family, friends and collaborators.Is this the book for me? Well no, it is not. I do not read travel guides. Why did I choose to read it, well because I love Bourdain's shows and wanted som...

"World Travel" is sort of an atlas to the world through Anthony's eyes and encapsulates his experiences over the twenty years he traveled for the television show. This book is a fun and frank travel guide to various places like From Spain, Argentina, and Tanzania, including some of his favorite places to go, giving us advice on what to eat, where to stay, and what to avoid. There are also essays written by friends, colleagues, and family that give us insight into some of the beautiful work in th...

I want to give a warning to people that want to buy this book. My mother got scammed on Amazon for this book. Some people are using the cover and filling up a small booklet that it's filled with travel revenues from China. [image error][image error]PLEASE BUY THIS BOOK FROM THE AUTHORS PROFILE ON AMAZON OR AT A LOCAL BOOK STOR TO NOT GET SCAMMED.

3 ☆World Travel was exactly as the GR summary had described. In accordance with the title, 43 nations had been selected from all corners of the globe, with the exception of Antarctica whose residents do not in any way cater to the tourist trade. But Bourdain had indeed made a memorable show there featuring the scientists, and I recommend looking up that episode. Bourdain had ended his world perambulations with his suicide in 2018. Nonetheless, this book sounded like him because his main insights...

I found this a particularly uninspired book.Yes, some of the selections were good, but the way it was put together and written was a take out meal when you were expecting a 3 course. 2.0 rating. 2.1 with rice.2.1/5

I’ve long been a fan of Anthony Bourdain: ten years ago or more I read, and loved, Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour and ever since I’ve voraciously chased down episodes of his television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. In these shows he travels the world, meets people, explores the area and eats and drinks his way through just about anything you can think of. I was so obsessed with these programmes that I even tracked down a food shack he visited in one of his episodes. After w...

Just skimmed this. Quite a disappointment in that just a few sentences per page are truly the words of Anthony Bourdain. It is such a shallow take on many countries of the world. It’s a terrible travel guide unless you’re going to skip around the world spending a few days in each country. It doesn’t draw you a rich enough picture of any country to make you want to go. The highlight was the essay by the woman who was the guide around South Korea. Her story was all I will remember about this cash

Gave it a 3, and it’s a 3 at best. Disappointed with the book mainly because it’s not what I expected. It’s basically a Lonely Planet Guidebook for places Bourdain went. I would have rather read more about experiences he had in these places, with people he worked with, friends, people he met along the way. There was some, in the essays scattered in the book, but I could have done with a lot more. That’s what I expected the book to be. As for the recommendations, the food ones were good. I could

A mishmash of quotes from his shows, and dry facts compiled by his assistant. Reads like a random travel guide complete with how much a taxi to the airport costs. Best consumed in small doses as it is not cohesive at all. My expectations were way too high.

I don't think Anthony Bourdains name should have been attached to this project at all. It felt like the writer wanted to release the book rather than create a piece of work that would make Bourdain proud. It was formulaic. Quote, brief & surface level explanation of quote, and then airport info followed by 1 or 2 restaurants. She could have taken the time to really understand how those trips went, the interactions on his travels, how he felt, what he left behind when he left these places. This w...

I did not finish this book. The advertising for the book was completely misleading and I regret having purchased it. Anthony Bourdain had nothing to do with the writing of this book. There had been a one hour discussion prior to his death of the possibility of creating a travel guide based on his favorite places. It never got beyond that one hour conversation . Instead, this is a compilation of quotes from Bourdain‘s shows. You would be far better off catching those reruns and hear Bourdain’s vo...

World Travel By Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain was an icon who saw different cultures and parts of the world through the food that binds us together as humanity. His voice and style with the auspiciousness of understanding the world in which we live, is written so beautifully in this book. This travel guide is a collection of his favorite places that he has visited and is a wonderful read especially now that an escape read is part of what keeps our sanity intact. I enjoy the deep dive into the...

As a big fan of the late and great Anthony Bourdain, this book was a great way to reminisce about his favorite locations and plan new travels. Sadly, it was not the book it was initially intended to be due to his death. Most of his words are from other sources. But it's great to see them compiled and his recommendations all in one spot. The added bonus of essays by people who knew him well is a great tribute to him and shares stories of his travels behind-the-scenes. I recommend this book to any...