Kye explains she was surprised not just to come along for the South Korea episode, which aired in 2006, but also to be its focus, along with her family there. “It’s hard not to get emotional when I talk about Tony,” she says, wiping away tears during a Zoom call from her Brooklyn home. What happened after that drunken conversation was not a joke, Kye says. 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. World Travel by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever
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