Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

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An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine-this time with never-before-published material.

  • Product Features

    • Anthony Bourdain (Author)
    • Publisher: HarperCollins
    • Publication Date: 01-09-2007
    • Page Count: 352
    • Paperback
    • Age Range - Adult
    • Cookbooks
    • Product Dimensions - 5.2 W x 7.9 H x 1.1 D
    • ISBN-13 - 9780060899226

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2 years ago
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A Modern Classic

Bourdain hooked me from the very start and then every second of reading this was as delicious as the last. It felt like sitting back at the kitchen table with a full belly after a large feast and sipping on wine with a friend. Bourdain was unlike any other both in the kitchen and on the page.

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2 years ago
from Tampa, FL

If you are a die-hard fan, do not read this review

The reviewer of this book typically reads true crime and books on musicians. I saw this at the airport a couple of years ago and bought it and I'm now 200 pages deep in it. I'm reviewing this early because I think all the good parts have past and I have to get this off my chest.... Anthony Bourdain...I loved the journeys he went on. I had a crush on Asia Argento for a while and didn't know they were an item. He did say some good things and brought great ideas to the table both figuratively and physically. I'm right wing and he is left wing, that didn't bother me. Here was my ultimate bias as to why I did not give him an exceptional grade. Tony, in this book and in life was ALWAYS calling people out. First off tony was a drug addict and has no right to talk smack on people because they were late for work or they got in a fight "like dude you are not perfect tony". Lauren Bacall is the only famous person in his book I knew he served. I don't know if Les Halles is still up and running, just because someone has a one michillen star restaurant in NYC doesn't mean they are the goat of the kitchen. I don't mind Tony.......but yes there was quite an ego there.

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3 years ago
from Boston, MA

Bourdain at his best

Bourdain was always a writer first. That became clear to me after finishing this book. Prior to reading I had consumed "Parts Unknown" in its entirety, and my biggest take away was that Bourdain found his voice a long time ago. One of my favorite books ever.

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