This book had set on my shelf all to long, but the temptation finally got to me.

The book is A Cooks Tour by Anthony Bourdain. A TV chef who does no cooking but yet has several tv shows under his belt. All he seemingly does is travel and eat. God I wish I was him.

Bourdain started his career a chef. He worked, he drank, he smoked. All the time just getting the stories that would end up making him famous. His first foray into writing was the ever popular ‘Kitchen Confidential’ which pretty much described some realities of the real world that chefs lived in. What follows is this book.

With the success of his first book he managed to talk his way into a second book deal (this one). The concept was easy. Get paid to travel and eat his way round the world finding the perfect meal.

However after killing a pig in Portugal, eating a cobra heart in Vietnam or trying Fugu in Tokyo he finally realises that perfection is not something you can find but more and endless process. If you ever found perfection it would be the end of the search and a real failure.

This book is something that just resonates to me. To do the two things I have always loved doing (eating & travelling) just screams to me. Even now with my different life I still think that the journey is half the fun of something and working towards that new experience that one desire to find that perfect meal or that new taste is what life is all about.

Getting to experience new tastes, new sensations in far flung places will always be a goal for me so this book hit home perfectly. A great book for that holiday read you know you need.