While traveling, many of us expect to be eating out most of the time. After all, you’re in a different city, which is the best opportunity to sample the local cuisine. And when you’re cooped up in a hotel room, there’s almost always no option to cook your own meal. Plus, where would you even start? Haggling at a foreign marketplace takes up time and requires patience and skill, and you’d rather save those energies for sightseeing.
Not for Anthony Bourdain, though. You’d expect the Parts Unknown host to partake in the usual affair of dining in the best food haunts whichever part of the globe he’s in — after all, he of all people would know the best places to eat in each country! Yet as Tony explains to Travel + Leisure:
“I don’t go out to restaurants when I’m not working. Maybe just a few, a very tight cluster of regular places that I would never put on television—just to keep them mine. When I’m on vacation, I live a very different life. I cook because it makes me happy. I want to forget who I am and I want to go to places where no one knows who I am.”
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