“When Tony died, I think that kind of dream or ambition or whatever it is, I felt like it died with him,” Vitale says. “Because what happens off-camera is a lot crazier than what makes it to air.īut that drive went away after Bourdain’s death. “When we were traveling, I always sort of dreamed, ‘One day, gosh, I have to write about these stories,’” he says. Vitale says that he’d long thought that one day he might write a book about his life on the road with Bourdain. And letting go of Tony, even two years after his death, was the hardest thing to do.
