Bourdain's best writing can make food lovers quiver like raw fish.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

A Manhattan tale with Elmore Leonard flavor . . . Bourdain cooks as a writer.

The New York Times on The Bobby Gold Stories

The chef wields his pen with the same murderously winning flair as he does his knives.

Kirkus Reviews, on The Bobby Gold Stories

A new master of the wiseass crime comedy.

Publishers Weekly on Gone Bamboo

Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo.

New York