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Anthony Bourdain Gives His Last Advice on How to Travel the World
A posthumous guidebook called World Travel, with co-author Laurie Woolever, provides a bit of the chef and CNN host’s perspective on 43 city destinations.
Illustration: Gel Jamlang
“Did the world need another travel guide, and did we need to write it?” asks Laurie Woolever.
The question arose in March 2017, as she and the late Anthony Bourdain considered a guidebook that would catalog the world as seen through the famed chef and CNN host’s penetrating eyes. With his expanding roster of TV and publishing contracts, his co-author wondered, had the universe reached “peak Bourdain”?