\"A delectable treat for those heavyhearted devotees, as well as a phenomental introduction for those who have yet to discover Bourdain\'s creative, curious, charismatic voice...The collection...is large and luscious, full of fun, variety, insight, and wonder--just like the man himself...A worthy scrapbook of Bourdain\'s big, bold life...vivid, evocative, and ample helpings of Bourdain\'s joy, sharp humor, and wonder...An endless buffet from a giant, voracious, soul-searching talent.\" - BookPage, starred review
\"Bourdain delivers whip-smart, mot juste, and funny pronouncements on the world...A welcome gathering of work by a writer-and traveler, chef, and truth teller-gone too soon.\" - Kirkus Reviews
\"The hunger for more Bourdain and his writing remains insatiable. Witherspoon, his agent and friend of many years, has assembled a wealth of new material by the late great, including teenage diary entries, unpublished short stories and chapters from an unfinished novel.\" - New York Post
\"Some of the loveliest passages come when Bourdain writes with just-so tenderness and precision about his family... I suspect Bourdain will be read in years to come less as a writer about food than of food work. Everywhere he lands - whether in struggling bistros, mob joints or midtown nightclubs - he warms to the subaltern caste of underpaid toilers slicing and sizzling and sweating away.\" - The Guardian