Don't Try This at Home

[Fat Guy]

Bloomsbury (the publisher, and actually soon to be my publisher) had a media lunch for Don't Try This at Home today, so I was able to take home a copy of the galleys. I've only had time to read a few of the stories -- just what I could scan in the amount of time it took the M1 bus to get from Alto to my apartment -- but man, just wait until you read the one about the guy with the paralyzed hand. We're also trying to arrange a special surprise for eG Forums members -- more on that once I meet with Dave the Cook and Maggie the Cat.

[brooklyncook]

People Magazine just published a review of the book; does anyone know where I can find a digital version of the picture they ran with it? It's Ripert and Bourdain outside a walk-in cooler, with Sara Moulton in the window, trying to get out.

It's not on the website, I tried looking there. Don't know if it's a Gettys Images thing or what.

[russ parsons]

i reviewed it a couple of weeks ago, too. i thought it was surprisingly good--it sounded like the kind of project that could have gone off the skids in dozens of ways, but it was satisfying.

full version

[ronnie_suburban]

In an interview with Milt Rosenberg on WGN radio (Chicago) Anthony Bourdain and Paul Kahan (Blackbird, Avec) discuss their respective chapters in the book -- and a variety of other subjects.

A Chef's Life

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[Tess]

Thanks, Ron. I'd missed that.

[Jason Perlow]

For Thanksgiving, NPR has a nice audio segment online related to this book, with some of its contributors:

Don't Try This at Home (NPR)

[Claudia Greco]

For Thanksgiving, NPR has a nice audio segment online related to this book, with some of its contributors:

Don't Try This at Home (NPR)

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As a follow-up, sort of, to this book, some of the same chefs - notably, Anthony Bourdain - have contributed to a new volume, How I Learned to Cook. I believe it's out either this week or next. AB and one of his many configurated chef Rat Packs (this time, Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune, Eric Ripert and the infamous Michael Ruhlman of the No Reservations Las Vegas episode) are doing a gig at the 92nd Street Y here in NYC on Monday of the same title. Gabrille and Bourdain share a literary agent, I believe (Kimberly Witherspoon), who edited this book (and, if I remember correctly, edited Do Not Try This At Home). Nice bit of networking - and promotion.