Anthony Bourdain and philosophy : an appetite for life
2024
Book
"Anthony Bourdain and Philosophy is a collection of chapters by a diverse group of philosophers on many aspects of Bourdain?́?s life and work. Among the topics discussed: What counts as food, and what counts as good food? What can we learn from travel that we could not glean from books and movies? Do eating habits bring people together or drive them apart? Is suicide a moral issue or just a matter of personal preference? Is it okay for an addictive personality to indulge his many indications, including addictions to work and sports? Are vegetarianism and other progressive lifestyle features ?́?first world luxuries?́??" -- Amazon
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781637700396
- 1637700393
Description: xii, 233 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
- The Last Supper game
- Taste : A man for all seasonings / Michael Shaffer ; To eat or not to eat? / Walter Barta and Candace Miranda ; The nasty bits / Scott Calef ; How Anthony Bourdain united the local and the universal / Walter Barta and Candace Miranda
- Life : Friendship, fun, freedom, food, and the future / Michel Le Gall and Charles Taliaferro ; Authenticity in a world of bullshido / Ryan Falcioni ; Anthony Bourdain's extremely objectionable stories / Eric Holmes ; Why do we care who Bourdain really was? / Margot Finn ; Anthony Bourdain's inquiring mind / Doug Anderson and Samantha Mauro
- Death : Some dark genie / Scott Calef ; The one truly serious philosophical problem / Darci Doll ; Bourdain's taste for freedom / Christophe Porot and Allen Simon
- The good, the bad, and the ugly : Anthony Bourdain's antisocial ethics / Jill M. Kitchen and Frank Scalambrino ; Did Bourdain go #MeToo far? / Margot Finn ; The subtle persuasion of culinary adventure programs / Andrew Wahnsiedler ; Fine dining with children starving / Walter Barta and Candace Miranda ; Chef of the future? / Marc Cheong ; The journey may also save us / Trip McCrossin
- Bibliography
- Kitchen crew from the culinary underbelly
- Index.
Control Number: 3285741
Publisher: Chicago : Open Universe, [2024]Series:
Subjects:
Genre: Essays.
Other Authors:
- Anderson, Doug, contributor.
- Barta, Walter, contributor.
- Calef, Scott, 1959- editor, contributor.
- Cheong, Marc, contributor.
- Doll, Darci, contributor.
- Falcioni, Ryan, contributor.
- Finn, Margo, contributor.
- Holmes, Eric, contributor.
- Kitchen, Jill M., contributor.
- Le Gall, Michel, contributor.
- Mauro, Samantha, contributor.
- McCrossin, Trip, contributor.
- Miranda, Candace, contributor.
- Porot, Christophe, contributor.
- Scalambrino, Frank, 1976- contributor.
- Shaffer, M. B., contributor.
- Simon, Allen, contributor.
- Taliaferro, Charles, contributor.
- Wahnsiedler, Andrew, contributor.