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Why Anthony Bourdain Changed His Mind On His Initial Monday Fish Rule By Dylan Murray June 6, 2025 8:00 pm EST

For as much love as Anthony Bourdain received for his TV shows like "Parts Unknown" and the eternally-underrated " A Cook's Tour " (Bourdain's very first travel show) his earliest claim to fame came when he wrote the book " Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly ," a follow-up to his op-ed entitled "Don't Eat Before Reading This." In both writings, Bourdain gave the long-heralded advice to never order fish on Mondays — a suggestion that the chef would eventually retract years later. According to Bourdain, this change in opinion was the result of the food industry improving its standards and his own expanded worldview over

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