Tickets for Bourdain event at the Midland are still available
Date: August 11, 2008
Author: Kauffman Center
Tickets are selling briskly for the chance to hear from Anthony Bourdain, world traveling chef, author and raconteur. Bourdain will speak Tuesday, September 16 at an event presented by Bristol Seafood Grill and the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. You won’t want to miss Bourdain’s first public appearance in Kansas City, held at the Midland in downtown Kansas City.
Bourdain’s latest project is a travel and food series on the Travel Channel called Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. His delicious sense of humor, matter of fact attitude, and world wide travel experience make him a dynamic, entertaining, and outspoken personality.
A New York native, Anthony Bourdain studied at Vassar College and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America before running kitchens at New York City's Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue and Sullivan’s. He is currently the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles and lives in Manhattan. Tickets for his 6:30 p.m. presentation downtown at the newly renovated Midland are available now for $55. The Midland reopens in early September, so you'll be among the first to enjoy it.
With Travel Channel cameras following every step, Bourdain travels all over the world sampling local culinary delicacies. These delicacies sometimes tend toward the extreme, including a raw seal eye ball and the beating heart of a cobra. Bourdain maintains that the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten is a Chicken McNugget.
His exposé of New York restaurants, Don’t Eat Before Reading This, was published in The New Yorker in 1999 and attracted huge attention. Later, this article formed the basis of his popular memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
In 2002, the Food Network broadcast a 22-part series in which Bourdain traveled the world in search of ‘extreme cuisine’. The resulting book, A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, became a bestseller in the US and the UK, and won the 2002 Guild of Food Writers Award for Food Book of the Year.
Bourdain has also written two crime novels, Bone in the Throat (1995) and Gone Bamboo (1997), and, of course, a cookbook. Published in October 2004, the Les Halles Cookbook is Anthony Bourdain’s guide to the strategies and techniques of classic bistro cooking. The book contains more than a hundred recipes from Brasserie Les Halles, all delivered in Bourdain’s ribald style.
Tickets are selling quickly at $55 each, but remain available for Bourdain’s September 16 presentation at the Midland. Get tickets now.
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