New Yorker editor David Remnick on Friday recalled how he learned of Bourdain’s submission. I became editor in 1998 and my wife, Esther Fein, at that time, was still a reporter at the New York Times. She worked together in the same newsroom as Anthony Bourdain’s mother, who I believe might’ve been a copy editor — you can call my wife to fact-check this — and we weren’t used to the idea that I’d be getting envelopes all the time, literally or figuratively. Year after year, cooks contend with bouncing paychecks, irate purveyors, desperate owners looking for the masterstroke that will cure their restaurant’s ills: Live Cabaret! “Don’t Eat Before Reading This” was the foundation for Bourdain’s bestselling book in 2000: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.

Source: Huffington Post June 08, 2018 14:12 UTC