Anthony Bourdain

Recounts the story of Mary Mallon, an immigrant cook considered responsible for the 1904 outbreak of typhoid fever in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and describes her attempts to escape capture and institutionalization.

An Urban Historical

Typhoid Mary

Half Yeti, All Man

The prose in this book does not match Bourdain's other works. To me, it read like somebody else's words. The only time it felt like Bourdain writing is when the subject of food and cooking came up, at which point Bourdain went overboard with details and descriptions. There was also entirely too much supposition as to Mallon's feelings and state of mind for my taste. I wanted to like this book as much as I do Bourdain's other works, but fiction and non-fiction, but it never really met my expectations.

Typhoid Mary An Urban Historical

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