Turns out, those notes would be the only original ideas from Bourdain she'd have to work with. "Tony chain-smoked and free-associated for over an hour, recalling best-loved dishes and hotels and people," Woolever remembers in the introduction to World Travel, while she took notes. It took another year before they sat down in Bourdain's Manhattan apartment in March 2018 to brainstorm. She and Bourdain had just come off of promoting his 2016 book Appetites-Woolever worked with Bourdain as his assistant and then co-author since 2009-when they started thinking about this one. This isn't what Woolever had in mind four years ago.
I found myself flipping to locations that I share in common with Bourdain, like New York City, so I could relish his description of a certain cocktail lounge in midtown Manhattan: "I believe people have died there." I also wanted to read about Myanmar, where long before the latest turmoil, Bourdain noted: "Burma, now Myanmar, where Orwell had once served as a colonial policeman, where he'd first grown to despise the apparatus of a security state, became more Orwellian than even he could have imagined."
That is perhaps the best use of World Travel-a travel guide that's more of a traveler's creed. Others could use a refresher on cultivating a sense of worldly wonder. Many could use the Bourdainian reminder to be, frankly, not shitheads while they travel. The travel industry is readying itself for a boom. It's been a long, boring, grief-stricken year of staying put. This far into April, restless Americans are eyeing flight prices and getaway destinations, if not without inhibitions, then certainly with fewer of them.
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