"Anthony Bourdain is man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family and friends. Appetites, his first cookbook in more than ten years, boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a tight repertoire of personal favorites--dishes that everyone should (at least in Mr. Bourdain's opinion) know how to cook..." -- From the publisher.

Includes index.

Breakfast -- Fight! -- Salads -- Soups -- Sandwiches -- Party 101 -- Hamburger rules -- Pasta -- Fish and seafood -- Birds -- Thanksgiving -- Meat -- Side dishes -- Dessert -- Stock, sauces, and dressings.