I plan on reading this. It sounds interesting.

THANK YOU for the link to the interview. I love his writing, and his Travel Channel show is the first travel show I can watch and actually be drawn in to the place he's visiting. He may be a seasoned traveler by now, but in "No Reservations" he's so easy to identify with as the tall, awkward, kind of common everyman who learns about the culture from the outside in, and never takes himself too seriously. Bless the Travel Channel for giving him a home and leaving him alone to do good television!

I only wish he'd release more of his books on audio, beyond "Kitchen Confidential". He's one of those authors whose voice you definitely hear when you read his stuff, but I'd rather hear him relate his stories directly to me out loud.