When many of us met Anthony Bourdain, he already had a snappy leather jacket, a raconteur’s wit, and a glamorous globe-trotting job. Far fewer of us remember an earlier version of Tony, when he was forty-two years old, broke, and quietly certain he had wasted his life.
That guy started getting up early to write a few paragraphs before his shift at Les Halles in NYC. Within a year, Kitchen Confidential had made him one of the most talked about writers in America, and the rest of the world became his next assignment.
In episode three of Trajectori, I profile Anthony Bourdain… dishwasher, Culinary Institute of America graduate, chef, recovering addict, bestselling author, and the beloved host of A Cook’s Tour, No Reservations, and Parts Unknown. Tony’s trajectory is a case study in becoming yourself through life’s detours, not in spite of them.
What you’ll hear:
– A raw oyster, freshly eaten straight from the water off the coast of France, that started Anthony Bourdain on his adventurous life at the age of 10
– A kitchen full of cooks who dressed like pirates, and the humiliating shift that made Tony want to be a chef
– A mentor with a strange nickname, whose seven rules of the kitchen turned Tony from a drifting cook into a true leader
– A phone call Tony’s mother made, and a resulting favor that changed her son’s life
– A week trapped in war torn Beirut that shaped Tony’s future
– A lifetime of hard living that blossomed at middle age, but ultimately became unsustainable
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Download the PDF Summary documents from this episode so you can apply the takeaways from Anthony Bourdain’s Trajectori to your own life:
1. Key Takeaways From The Episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D2s9Z73MFnAkIbO_avUVusAQ3VtS2DQ-moVbQVYkLbk/export?format=pdf
2. Bigfoot Takeaways: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RoUV9zvytqtlHXBunvOH2LAF7tQ9FEHE999tbh7Ba98/export?format=pdf
3. No Go List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o5EMd_pDAvcKfIskgrSb51iyXIcv4Kz6VRcDASK4L5g/export?format=pdf
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