Medium Raw

Yeah, I mean, wealth is still something, you know, and of, of, of, I, I, you know.

I've noticed, I, there was a discussion on Blue Sky recently of, of, uh, I believe it was the author of the, uh, books that became a heated rivalry-

Oh

... gave something like several hundred thousand dollars to a Canadian charity, right?

Do you have any, like, favorite food media? This is my, my, one of my wrap-up questions for you, speaking of Tampopo.

I mean, yeah, obviously I've already talked about, uh, Saint Anthony Bourdain.

[laughs] Uh, I've talked about, uh, the Kitchen Confidential books.

Um, I think that his, uh, his travel show, uh, Parts Unknown, is very important, uh, because it does that same thing.

And I've already read the three nonfiction books that he's put out.

Oh, so you've read, what's it, Medium Rare, Medium Raw? Yeah.

Yeah.

I would not recommend reading Medium Raw right after Kitchen Confidential because it's very disturbing how much has changed in the 10 years between the two books were published.

So Medium Raw is a celebrity memoir.

By this point, Anderson Bourdain is really famous.

He's like burned out from eating too many four-hour tasting menus.

You get a sense of Anthony Bourdain as a writer, right? rather than as a personality.