Appetites boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and world traveling to a tight repertoire of personal favorites - dishes that everyone should ( at least in Mr. Bourdain's opinion) know how to cook. Once the supposed "bad boy" of cooking, Mr. Bourdain has, in recent years, become the father of a little girl - a role he has come to embrace with enthusiasm. The result is a home cooking, home entertaining cookbook like no other.