flâneur

Brandon Leung

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  • Toronto is one of the places featured in the guide, and despite Bourdain famously calling it “not a good-looking city,” he described it in his book as a “uniquely wonderful and weird” place concealed inside of a “steel-box exterior.”
    Here’s where Anthony Bourdain ate when he visited Toronto
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding