"This is a tough admission for me, but I am, and always have been, a huge Anthony Bourdain fan. It's tough because, I mean, white guy who fancies himself a professional writer, the only good traveler, and an above-average home cookI'm a statistic, the most annoying guy you can talk to. (I've even got the Bourdain self-loathing down.)"
"My wife, God bless her, has had to put up with all of it. We'd travel to Paris, and she'd just want to see the Eiffel Tower, eat with a view of the Arc de Triomphe, but I'd insist we go to some out-of-the-way arrondissement, sit in a cafe and smoke for hours, then eat at some tiny Moroccan joint. She's always humored it."
"Once early in our relationship, knowing I like to cook and read about knives, she gave me a chef's knifeI paid her back for it with a penny, as custom dictates (to prevent bad luck). It was the wrong type of knife. Everyone knows Bourdain recommended getting a Global G-2 in Kitchen Confidential, and she got me a cheaper Mercer Genesis. I never told her thiseven when I was 21 and insufferable, I've always had mannersbut it did silently eat away at me for a bit."
A narrator admits to being an avid Anthony Bourdain fan and to stereotypical traveler and home-cook behaviors. A relationship anecdote describes receiving a chef's knife, repaying with a penny, and feeling it was the wrong type due to a Bourdain recommendation. The cheaper Mercer Genesis was kept and used for nearly a decade without upgrading. For nonprofessional cooks, knives under $150 are described as functionally interchangeable. Durability and being hard to break are emphasized as the most valuable traits in tools. The idea of tool-focused design is compared across items like knives and watches.
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