I hear from some who have met him that Bourdain is also quite an asshole. But the occasionally tolerable, entertaining kind of asshole, like John McEnroe or Miles Davis (credit Gutbloom), the kind you may like to drink with for a bit. I prefer his writing to his shows, but he seems more charismatic than the workaday bully chef. The shows do get boring.

Love Marcella. Love ‘Lucky Peach’. Love Monty Python. Love food writing - M.F.K. Fisher once wrote this —

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Read her ‘Art of Eating’, if you haven’t. It’s brilliant.

It’s dinner time. Where’s the wine?