Typhoid Mary
An Urban Historical
Bourdain the cook turns historian, following Mary Mallon, the Irish cook who spread typhoid across New York and was hunted for it.
Bourdain the cook turns to history, following Mary Mallon, the Irish immigrant cook known as Typhoid Mary, who spread the disease through the kitchens of early-twentieth-century New York and was hunted, quarantined and vilified for it. He writes about her with unusual sympathy, seeing in her not a monster but a fellow member of the trade, cornered by forces she never understood.
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