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Steve Rinella mentions Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential, recalling when it came out and was excerpted in the New Yorker. This led to the production company optioning it and creating the TV shows that Morgan Fallon would later work on.

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Steve discusses a book given to him by podcast guest Randy Brown. The book is described as a journal chronicling three people starving to death in the Canadian Arctic along the Thelon River in the 1920s. The youngest survivor kept a meticulous journal documenting his companions' deaths and eventually his own death from starvation. Steve relates this to the Donner Party episode they filmed, particularly regarding the effects of eating boiled bones and animal hides during starvation.