User:Hbourride/Henri Bourride

Henri Bourride (July 14, 1954) is an influential American food writer living in Northern California. The son of a French film scholar teaching at a university in the Midwest, Bourride left home at 18, heading for the Big Pomme, then spent the next two decades traveling, eating and drinking in major cities around the world, including Barcelona, Bangkok, Honolulu, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, and Istanbul, before returning to New York City in the early 1990s, where he rented a flat in the East Village. In 2003, after a contretemps with someone he refers to only as L, he headed west, arriving in Chico, California, with little more than his collection of videos, including his favorite, "Some Like It Hot," and his French poodle, Miss Marilyn. His culinary expertise legendary, he was promptly hired by the Chico News and Review to write a regular food column called "Chow," which continues to this day. His sister, Colette, and her Bichon Frise, Mr. Theo, moved in with them in 2007. Today, despite his physician Dr. Epinards' admonitions to lose at least 50 pounds and to cut back on the drinking, he is reasonably content, as long as the rain isn't falling too hard, Edith Piaf is playing on his little stereo, and there's a decent Pinot open.