From the Book - First edition.
1 "I Absolutely Always Saw a Talent in Him": Early Life p. 1 --
2 "Super Smart, Super Funny": The Teenage Years p. 7 --
3 "A Lot of Fun to Be Around": Young Adulthood p. 17 --
4 "It Was What the Cool Kids Were Doing": The Early New York Years p. 23 --
5 "He Just Wanted to Be a Writer in the Worst Way": Meeting Joel Rose p. 39 --
6 "They Got Some Money, and It Just Went into Their Veins": Heroin p. 43 --
7 "I'm Tony Motherfucking Bourdain-You Got a Problem?": New York in the Nineties p. 49 --
8 "Such Was My Lust to See My Name in Print" p. 55 --
9 "Appalling Stories of Remorseless Criminality": The Stone Brothers p. 59 --
10 "You've Got a Long Con Going Here": The Genesis of Kitchen Confidential p. 65 --
11 "It Was Picking Up a Rock Off the Restaurant Scene and Showing Everything That Was Underneath It" p. 69 --
12 "He Was Not Just a Cook Anymore; He Was a Real 3D Person" p. 73 --
13 "I'm Not Gonna Censor the Guy": Editing and Publishing Kitchen Confidential p. 79 --
14 "The Brass Ring Comes Around Only Once" p. 85 --
15 "He Never Came Off Book Tour" p. 91 --
16 "I'd Love to Travel the World": A Cook's Tour Begins p. 97 --
17 "Tony Was So Reluctant to Do Television" p. 103 --
18 "He Was Ahead of His Time": The End of A Cook's Tour p. 117 --
19 "He Was Prepared to Piss Off Everybody": Travel Channel p. 123 --
20 "He Was Very Untethered": The Early No Reservations Years p. 129 --
21 "Basically, He Kidnapped My Cat": Tony Meets Ottavia p. 139 --
22 "Let's Spin the Wheel Again": Beirut, a Baby p. 143 --
23 "It Was Not the Easiest Thing": Life on the Road as a Family p. 149 --
24 "Don't Bother Tony": Navigating Friendships and Fame p. 155 --
25 "We Got Shit Done": Making No Reservations p. 167 --
26 "You See a Person Who's Come Full Circle, and He's Seen the World": Medium Raw p. 179 --
27 "I Knew I Could Write the Story I Needed to Write": Tony as Publisher, Graphic Novelist, and Screenwriter p. 183 --
28 "I Felt Like I Knew Him All My Life": David Simon Recalls Tony p. 193 --
29 "He Could Have Sat in a Santa's Throne in a Shopping Mall": The Onstage Experience p. 197 --
30 "He Was a Curator of People" p. 205 --
31 "He Was a Man of Extremes" p. 215 --
32 "Darker, More Transgressive, and More Lurid": Roads & Kingdoms p. 221 --
33 "Everyone Felt They Knew Him": Charisma and Reserve p. 227 --
34 "Get a Big Fucking Body Bag": Frustration and Isolation in the Field p. 233 --
35 "Tony Had a Burden of Leadership That Was Real" p. 245 --
36 "He Always Had to Perform the Role of Tony" p. 251 --
37 "Such an Unlikely Program for Him": The Taste p. 259 --
38 "Push the Boundary Really Hard, Really Fast": The Move to CNN p. 265 --
39 "I Really Wasn't Doing It for the Cronut": Tony Tries a Talk Show p. 275 --
40 "Middle-Class White People Going to Poverty-Stricken Parts of the World ... without Being Dicks about It" p. 279 --
41 "It Was Too Much of a Dream": The Bourdain Market p. 283 --
42 "You Don't Direct Tony Bourdain": Life on the Road with Parts Unknown p. 289 --
43 "You Were That Guy Who Got Arrested": Jason and Yeganeh Rezaian in Iran p. 311 --
44 "This Is Just Another Tribe": Brazilian Jiu-Jirsu p. 321 --
45 "Maybe You'll Find Another Chance at Love": The End of the Marriage p. 331 --
46 "Tony's Changed; Tony's Very Different Now" p. 337 --
47 "He Was Attracted to Chaos" p. 351 --
48 "They're Gonna Tear You Apart": Alienating Friends p. 355 --
49 "He Was Like a Young Kid in Love" p. 363 --
50 "Every Good Band Eventually Breaks Up" p. 371 --
51 "Embracing the Chaos": Rome and Puglia p. 375 --
52 "We Bolstered Each Other's Incorrect Assertion That Asking for Help Is Somehow a Mistake" p. 379 --
53 "Call It Impostor Syndrome, If You Want, but Tony Definitely Had It" p. 383 --
54 "We Should Do Something Together": Kenya with W. Kamau Bell p. 387 --
55 "I Knew Someone Was Doomed": Hong Kong p. 393 --
56 "You Can't Put Your Arms around a Memory": New York, Asturias, Florence p. 403 --
57 "All OK": Alsace p. 411 --
58 "It's Hard to See Things as They Really Are" p. 417 --
59 "He Was an Extraordinary Witness and Voice for the World" p. 431.
