In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

by Tom Vitale
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

by Tom Vitale

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Overview

**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction**

Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend.

 
In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come close to filling the void he left. His passion for and genuine curiosity about the people and cultures he visited made the world feel smaller and more connected. Despite his affable, confident, and trademark snarky TV persona, the real Tony was intensely private, deeply conflicted about his fame, and an enigma even to those close to him. Tony’s devoted crew knew him best, and no one else had a front-row seat for as long as his director and producer, Tom Vitale.

Over the course of more than a decade traveling together, Tony became a boss, a friend, a hero and, sometimes, a tormentor.In the Weeds takes readers behind the scenes to reveal not just the insanity that went into filming in some of the most far-flung and volatile parts of the world, but what Tony was like unedited and off-camera. From the outside, the job looked like an all-expenses-paid adventure to places like Borneo, Vietnam, Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Libya. What happened off-camera was far more interesting than what made it to air. The more things went wrong, the better it was for the show. Fortunately, everything fell apart constantly.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780306924095
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 09/28/2021
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 395,901
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Season after season Tom Vitale traveled with Anthony Bourdain on a near-nonstop run of eighty trips—roughly five trips a year—to almost every corner of the globe, constantly meeting strangers, often through the context of their food and culture, in the process making over 100 episodes of TV. In addition to the adventure of a lifetime, personal enrichment, and experiences he would never have thought possible, his work rewarded him with a PGA Award nomination, five Emmy wins and four nominations, a Gold World Medal for Best Non-Fiction Program, and he is credited on Parts Unknown's Peabody Award.

Table of Contents

Author's Note xiii

Part 1

Chapter 1 Aftermath 3

Chapter 2 Ready for Prime Time 15

Chapter 3 Appetizer 39

Chapter 4 Heart of Darkness 55

Chapter 5 Signs You're in a Cult 81

Chapter 6 Kill Your Darlings 97

Part 2

Chapter 7 High-Risk Environment 119

Chapter 8 Shiny Objects 157

Chapter 9 Fame 163

Chapter 10 Jamaica Me Crazy 175

Chapter 11 Shooting Nightmares 203

Chapter 12 Roman Holiday 213

Part 3

Chapter 13 The Quiet American 227

Chapter 14 Playing with My Food 243

Chapter 15 Polite Dinner Conversation 261

Chapter 16 Karma 269

Epilogue 283

Acknowledgments 287

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