Making the world small…

[In memory of Anthony Bourdain.]

Anthony Bourdain showed us the world of food. What’s more important, though, is that he showed us places and people there who ate that food. One can make the argument that anything we can do to help people learn that we’re all on spaceship Earth together, and, in spite of our differences, we’re all human beings with similar yet simple goals in life—a good job, good health, and a loving family—that’s a good thing. Bourdain could do that; so can authors when the...