News Summary

• Frida Ghitis recalls the first time she heard of Anthony Bourdain.
• It was the summer of 2002, two years after he published “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,” a seminal and unsparing account of life as a chef in restaurant kitchens.
• Ghitis: Bourdain was much more than a whistle-blower, even at the very beginning of what would become his second, highly significant career.
• The voice he introduced in “Don’t Eat Before Reading This’ is not just brash and ballsy; it reverberates with style and poetry, from its tantalizing opening lines.