{"id":31677,"date":"2026-08-08T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=31677"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:30:21","slug":"the-true-story-behind-tony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=31677","title":{"rendered":"The True Story Behind Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\n<p><h2 id=\"bourdain-dishing-on-bourdain\" class=\"scroll-mt-24 font-editorial text-black-coffee text-mobile-h2 lg:scroll-mt-28 lg:text-h2 mb-4\">Bourdain dishing on Bourdain<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">In <em>Tony,<\/em> Sessa as Bourdain is obnoxious, talking himself up and lying to everyone he meets, even pretending that he\u2019s writing a book about the restaurant to impress Nancy. The real Bourdain was definitely known as an arrogant kid in Provincetown. Per <em>Kitchen Confidential,<\/em> back then he was \u201cangry\u201d and \u201cundisciplined,\u201d writing, \u201cI treated the world like my ashtray.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cHe was very brutally honest in critiquing his younger self, so that gave us some free rein to paint this wayward young man in all his warts,\u201d says Howe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">As one of the Flagship\u2019s chefs, Alex Getmanov, said in Laurie Woolever\u2019s <em>Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography<\/em>, Bourdain \u201cdidn\u2019t know anything, and he had this attitude that he could do anything, which doesn\u2019t get you far in a working kitchen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Working in the Flagship\u2019s kitchen, Bourdain wrote, \u201cessentially pushed me down the path I still walk to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bourdain dishing on Bourdain In Tony, Sessa as Bourdain is obnoxious, talking himself up and lying to everyone he meets, even pretending that he\u2019s writing a book about the restaurant to impress Nancy. 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