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I contend that there is no place on this Earth—at least not any that I’ve visited, and I’ve been downwind of Tacoma, Washington on a bad day—than Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the old Gorton’s fishpacking plant (which I swear the developers of Fallout 4 took inspiration from for Longneck Lukowski’s Cannery), at low…

Off topic, but you should send someone down from Chicago to Indy tomorrow for the world record sandwhich making attempt at Lucas Oil Stadium. All sandwiches made at the event will be donated to a local food bank.
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Thank Kevin, adding this to my “stuff to grill” list for this weekend. Read more

Great work. My politics generally stifle any ability of mine to comment on these boards but I am always a fan of effort and excellence. It is stunning to me that I genuinely miss someone I never met but Bourdain left a small hole in me. We likely would not have been friends but his brilliance and charisma were… Read more

This is great Kevin. Thank you to you and Mr. Vitale.  Read more

I guess I came here to grieve. I didn’t watch every episode of No Reservations, and as I haven’t had cable the last several years I’m sorry to say I watched even fewer episodes of Parts Unknown. Its a failing I’m hoping to correct. The period of time when I did have access to Anthony’s shows, though, overlapped with… Read more

Great interview, to the last drop.  Read more

This is a great interview, and of course Vitale’s a great subject. The crew did a fantastic job getting the material and then erasing themselves from the process, and it’s fascinating to read how it happened.
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You’ll get no argument from me over the Charleston scenes you chose. Still, the one that really hits home for me is the final scene: pals pondside after a long visit, sipping bourbon, tossing baits (that soundtrack too!). Though it probably wouldn’t have meant much without everything that preceded it. Read more

this was so so beautiful. thank you for this! Read more

My dad’s idea of a great adventure is to go back to one of the fly-fishing streams he’s been to over a dozen times, by himself, and do nothing but cast all day. His idea of a great meal is the classic campfire burnt-on-the-outside, raw-on-the-inside trout that not only tastes awful, but can make you pretty sick.… Read more

Indeed.  I completely stopped working and just kept reading the whole thing when normally I skim pretty quickly. Read more

I was disappointed with his Hanoi episode. Not that it wasn’t a good episode overall, nor was the bun cha over hyped (it’s awesome), but for someone who was about going off the beaten path in countries, and saying how much he loved Hanoi and Vietnam, I was just super surprised he never left what is considered the… Read more

Great guide! I’ll be referring to this for months/years to come. Small correction in the Armenia post: Turkey didn’t perpetrate the genocide, the Ottoman Empire did. The Republic of Turkey came into existence in 1923. Thanks for this!  Read more