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Bourdain, My Camera, and Me (2021)

PUBLISHED VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE July 2021. The bone kept sliding out of my hand.

I had plans to travel across Europe and fly to Australia and India to collect shots of significant chefs worldwide; plus I kept going to the Upper West Side to visit the bar at Jean-Georges in an attempt to ambush him into participating (while taking in the Central Park views from the floor-to-ceiling windows, obviously). Anyone who tried to push past the security bouncer only found the front door locked; they all had to snake through the kitchen on the way in, consuming a shot of vodka and a foie gras whippet en route to their seats. With the help of a prop stylist we had created a place for him to sit with a silver pitcher full of expiring roses, on top of a weathered wood table loaded with old books, a foreign newspaper, and paper and pens, to highlight his writing.

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