I’ll admit, I subscribe to quite a few [amazing!] mailers, but I don’t have a lot of time to read them. I dump them into designated folders until the right moment or mood to smash through a whole bunch at once. Seth mailers come once a day, so they add up quickly, but the man has a gift for brevity and communicating one essential idea. This makes rolling through his mailers - his daily blog post delivered by email - refreshing and delightful.
Read MoreHis book, Kitchen Confidential, sat on my bookshelf for years before I actually picked it up. And that was it; I was late to the party, but I was hooked. I quickly read his follow up, Raw, and then absorbed every episode of his shows: Parts Unknown, No Reservations, The Layover. Probably twice. Does that make me a Bourdainian? Fine, I’m it; I'm one of them. What people who haven’t connected with his work don’t understand about the Bourdain legacy, and the tribe of loyalists that feel his absence from this earth, is the atmosphere he created with every word he wrote.
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