During that trip, we had arranged a scene where Tony would go up in a Russian fighter jet. In those early days, we had a fixer, a local driver, a few cases of equipment and we all rode in the van together, including Tony. For the first season, I was stuck in the edit room, and though I had a little bit of a relationship with Tony and worked with him on voice over sessions during that period, my first trip in the field as a producer wasn't until a year later to Moscow in 2006. When Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations got the green light in 2005, I was brought on as post-producer. Which wasn't at all what it was he was just kind of a shy person.

I guess he thought it made him look out of touch. I thought that was very funny, but when I told him many years later, he didn't love that story. I knocked on the door and Tony opened it, but before I was able to say anything, he just took the tape and closed the door in my face. The first time I delivered it, I was very nervous.

I was a tape logger and once or twice during that period I had to bring a VHS rough cut of an episode to Tony's apartment.

I started working on Anthony Bourdain's first show, A Cook's Tour, a couple of months after graduating from college in 2002.

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