Travels

[richie]

Ello.

I recieved your book - A Cook's Tour - for my birthday, and I hope you're not sick of all the praise heaped upon it, but it truly was a delight to read. And I have two questions (though feel free to ignore them):

1. Of the places you travelled to, which do you find yourself wanting to go back to most, if any? Or does it say in the book and I'm just forgetting something?

2. What method do you use to write about your experiences? Do you take notes? Do you rely on the film taken by the Food Network? Or just mere memory? I'm a bit of a writer myself, and did an amateur diary of sorts documenting a trip I took to New York - I relied on note taking (looking like an utter fool) and memory. Just wondering how you went about this.

[bourdain]

) VietnamVietnam Vietnam..You know how pheronomes work? How you meet a woman, there's an attraction beyond attraction--a feeling--a smell that just feels right? A chemical neurotransmitter endorphin dopamine thing I think...Vietnam was like that for me. I was enchanted.

2) I travel, keeping a quick, hand written journal in rare momnts of lucidity. Back in New York, I wake up early--as always--and rewrite, After a first real draft--I run away for as long as I can to the Caribbean and do a polished draft. After that its fact -checking, galleys, final corrections, last edits. As you can probably tell from all the typos and errors in my books--its a quick, often sloppy process with me. I am always at war with my Inner Lazy Hippie.