The singularity of his celebrity and the suddenness of his death have fuelled an uncommonly intense, uncommonly enduring grief-a personal sense of public loss, of a sort usually reserved for popes and Presidents. Bourdain was a television megastar, a fluid and conversational writer, a social-media gadfly, a pointed cultural commentator, and seemingly everyone’s best friend. “I wish Anthony Bourdain was here to see this,” countless people have tweeted over the past thirty-seven-ish months, on occasions as varied as a New York gubernatorial candidate ordering a cinnamon-raisin bagel, the White House serving a McDonald’s banquet, the collapse of the American restaurant industry, and the sputtering attempts to revive the same. And you have to come with me.It’s been three years since Anthony Bourdain died, by suicide, in June of 2018, and the void he left is still a void.

We went outside to smoke, and in my drunken soju haze, I said, 'Tony, you have to swear you're going to Korea.' And he said, 'Of course. 'At the end of Season 1, I said, 'We're all going to eat Korean barbecue, and drink lots of soju.' I got us a huge table in Manhattan's K-town, and Tony came. 'The South Korea episode of No Reservations started as a joke,' she writes. She describes, in her essay, how her former boss profoundly changed her life.

Given the dearth of original writing by Bourdain himself, World Travel contains a handful of tributary essays, by the likes of Bourdain's brother Christopher, music producer Steve Albini, and Nari Kye, who worked as a production manager on Bourdain's TV show, No Reservations.

Bourdain had collaborated with Woolever on 2016's Appetites: A Cookbook, and this project was conceived of shortly thereafter, she says, with the intent to spotlight some of Bourdain's favorite places around the globe. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide was assembled by one of Bourdain's associates, Laurie Woolever, based entirely on his previous writings and an hourlong interview conducted shortly before his death. But it was not really written by the bestselling author, chef and TV personality who died in 2018. The new book World Travel: An Irreverent Guide is credited to Anthony Bourdain.

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