With “World Travel,” LaurieWoolever makes it possible for fans to travel with the Anthony Bourdain once again
is set up like a travel guide that spans 43 countries. Entries on each location include some information about where to stay and how to get around, but the emphasis is not so much on the practicalities of visiting a city as it is on Bourdain’s love of and connection to a place, his experiences there, and the ways in which food is entwined with a larger culture and global political histories.
I was very lucky to be hired as an editor at a culinary magazine with almost no editing experience. From there I went tor, and from there I had a baby and I wanted to slow down and be able to spend more time at home and not be a full-time editor. It just happened to be at the time when Tony Bourdain was looking for a new assistant. So that’s how I met him.Illustrations, like this one from the Morocco chapter, appear throughout the book., I learned about managing my own ego.
The whole craft and business of food writing and travel writing certainly changed quite a bit in the time that he was doing it. In that 20-year stretch where he was making television, there was an enormous shift in the kinds of things that were being written about, the kinds of things that people were interested in, or that editors would allow. How much of that is Tony’s doing is hard to break down.