“I Had a Pig’s Head in Oaxaca That Was Amazing”

I became an instant fan of Anthony Bourdain the first time I saw him on his Food Channel travel show, wolfing down some exotic fare in Vietnam, praising it through his thick New York accent in the most eloquent culinary terms. He struck me as some sort of unlikely street-thug-poet-chef, and I’ve watched “A Cook’s Tour” ever since. Bourdain is touring the U.S. these days to promote his new novel, “The Bobby Gold Stories.” During a stop in San Francisco, Alameda Times-Star reporter Jennifer Carnig met him at a local restaurant and wrote about it. Bourdain talked at length about his travels. Perhaps most surprisingly, he revealed that he and his wife are going to move to Vietnam, or at least spend six months of the year there. “It fits in with all of my childhood fantasies…about what the other side of the world is supposed to look like,” he said. “For me, being in Vietnam was like meeting the love of your life. It immediately felt perfect.”

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