WANDERING SOUL

I knew from the very beginning how lucky I was to work with the charismatic and brilliant chef, author and journalist Anthony Bourdain.

We were introduced nearly 20 years ago, when he needed a recipe editor and tester for his first cookbook – and I needed a job. We quickly established a good working relationship, passing pages and photos back and forth via email. No matter where he was in the world, Tony, as he preferred to be called, would reply quickly to all my queries. I sometimes wondered when and even he ever slept, so all-encompassing was his passion to explore a world he had educated himself about, through voracious book and film consumption, while toiling in badly lit kitchens for decades as a chef