Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical

Description: The riveting true crime tale from beloved chef and bestselling author Anthony Bourdain, originally published in 2001, centering deadly cook Mary Mallon-otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary.

Brief description: Anthony Bourdain was the New York Times-bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, A Cook's Tour, Typhoid Mary and The Nasty Bits, the cookbooks Appetites and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. He also co-authored the graphic novel Get Jiro! with Joel Rose. His writing appeared in the New York Times and New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations, Parts Unknown, A Cook's Tour and The Layover. Bourdain died in June 2018.

Review Quotes:

"[An] entertaining trifle of a book ... with the rude gusto and barbed wit that made ''Kitchen Confidential'' such a full-bodied pleasure." --Adam Shatz, New York Times Book Review

"Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting." --New York Magazine

"A juicy drama ... Bourdain creates a varied historical portrait of Mallon's time." --Seattle Times

"On page after page, Bourdain offers nothing but compassion ... He was determined to tell the familiar Typhoid Mary story from the point of view of a cook, a profession they had in common." --Washington Post