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The Nasty Bits

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Anthony Bourdain · Updated August 2026

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A restless collection of travel, food, television, and kitchen essays whose rough edges preserve Bourdain’s curiosity, appetite, humor, and unusually direct way of looking at the trade.

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Readers of food essays, travel writing, chef memoir, and unsanitized accounts of culinary culture
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Paperback · 304 pages · ISBN 9781596913608
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Food writing with the useful trim left on.

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