Presley Ackeret
Presley Ackeret is a writer, editor, and curator based in Boston and currently works in the Dept. of Anthropology at Harvard University. Perpetually aspiring to eat like Bourdain, she can almost always be found overindulging in local buck-a-shuck Wellfleets and words on paper.
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Anthony Bourdain in Montreal: 22 Spots Where Tony Ate
Québec is the only region in North America with French as a first language. Though just about an hour away from upstate New York, things are quite different here – traffic signs are in French, the river (instead of the north pole) is the mapping reference point, and all speed is listed in kilometers. As clarified in Tony’s visits to the province's most populated city, Montreal is "not little Paris, but also not North America..."
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Anthony Bourdain in Atlanta: 8 Spots Where Tony Ate
Regardless of whichever Atlanta nickname you use – ‘metropolis of the South’, ‘capital of the South’, ‘The A’, ‘The ATL’, ‘The Dirty Dirty’ – the city has something for everyone. Each neighborhood has something different to offer; it's a choose-your-own-adventure kind of place, if you will. In the South where everything’s bigger and better, what else would you expect...
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Anthony Bourdain in Boston: 9 Spots Where Tony Ate
Most, if not all, self-proclaimed ‘foodies’ in Boston will tell you flat-out that the places visited by Anthony Bourdain in Boston were simply wrong. In some regard, they’re right: the places Tony decided to visit during his one-time filming in the city do not showcase its “best” restaurants and platings, the most popular or well-reviewed establishments, or really anything near what one would be able to call a must-see food attraction...
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