'What is an oyster if not the perfect food? It requires no preparation or cooking. Cooking would be an affront. It provides its own sauce. It appears on your plate as God created it; raw, unadorned.'
Beautiful prose! Even for a 50-something sardonic, bitter, chain-smoking cook.
Reading Kitchen Confidential now and it's shocking. The Chuck Palahniuk of chef biographies. Shall never order fish on mondays again, thanks to Tony. Besides the long spiels about LSD addictions and emulating the phrase 'drunk as a skunk' in adolescent anecdotes, Bourdain manages to be surprisingly witty and eloquent. Being Executive chef in one of NY'S acclaimed restaurants, appearing in numerous travel logs and hurling one-liner insults over one's shoulders with ease can't be easy. The badass, old-man charm doesn't hurt either.
Work so far has been swell, if a bit tiring! Till next time :)
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