This is the stuff of real writing … Bourdain is a great original

Mail on Sunday

One of the world's first and most influential celebrity chefs

Guardian

Thrillingly profane, aggressively truthful voice … He would eat anything, go anywhere and say anything

New York Times

Bourdain is a very funny writer; sharp, honest and with a beguiling mix of belligerence and sensitivity

Sunday Telegraph

Brilliantly written in a raw, stylist gonzo prose, with pitch-black humour and a devilish turn of phrase

Evening Standard

Christ, could Bourdain weave words … Imagery like crime-scene photos, the flayed raw humour of a morgue attendant, the sort of one-liners a hitman drips as he pulls the trigger, and similes that would make Raymond Chandler eat his own pencils. For all the rock'n'roll, the easy, sleazy charm, the guy wrote like a poet

Guardian