The Anthony Bourdain Biopic Is Wildly Misunderstood

“It feels somehow shifty and . . . dishonest, making a buck writing,” Anthony Bourdain wrote in his celebrated 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential. “Writing anything is a treason of sorts. Even the cold recitation of facts—which is hardly what I've been up to—is never the thing itself. And the events described are somehow diminished in the telling.”