Bourdain: ‘What Right Minded Person Would NOT Travel the World if…Given the Chance?’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 07.30.07 | 4:20 PM ET
Long before World Hum was acquired by the Travel Channel, we were fans of Anthony Bourdain and his show No Reservations. We wrote about his experience in Beirut and his Graham Greene worldview. We even went so far as to call him a street-thug-poet-chef. Gadling just posted an interview with Bourdain, whose new season starts tonight. “What right minded person would NOT travel the world if and when given the chance?” Bourdain told the site—quite reasonably, we think—via e-mail. “I began to travel seriously as soon as I COULD. It took a successful book—and an indulgent network to allow me the opportunity—and I’m making the most of it.” Right on, Anthony. Let’s hear it for travel and indulgent networks.
Related on TravelChannel.com:
* Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Wiki
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Justin Glow 07.30.07 | 6:10 PM ET
Had we been in a real, non-email conversation, I would have loved to get into the conversation about plenty of “right minded” people who just don’t travel, regardless of whether they can or not.
And it was interesting to hear him say he finally traveled when he COULD. Did he mean he was simply unable to prior to getting a best-selling book and his own TV show? Most of us without best selling books and our own TV shows might be curious why it took those events to allow him freedom to roam the earth.
Thanks for the link!
Frank 08.02.07 | 5:49 PM ET
“...street-thug-poet-chef…” that’s great!
Tony is definitely The Man; especially when it comes to eating, drinking and traveling…three of my absolute favs!!
What Right Minded Person Would NOT watch No Reservations??!! Ha ha…
joe carnarvon 10.24.07 | 12:34 PM ET
Please go to Malta and do a tv segment