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Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) |  | Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher: Ecco
Category: Book
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Rating:  660 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Updated
Pages: 312
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060899220
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
EAN: 9780060899226
ASIN: 0060899220
Publication Date: January 9, 2007
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Amazon.com Review
Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn
Product Description
A 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—now with all-new, never-before-published material
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 Delightfully Vulgar July 25, 2010
William Soriano (Texas)
I foumd this book interesting and delightfully vulgar and insightful to the life of a New York City Chef
Anthony Bourdain July 21, 2010
Andrew Nguyen
If anyone has read any anthony bourdain books, you know he is sarcastic but stays in context. This book just keeps you wanting to read more.
 Ever So Much Fun July 19, 2010
mcryan
I love Anthony Bourdain and the man has quite a God-given talent for the written word. He is a world-weary traveler with a ton of great material, some of which he chooses to share in this book. He is always open, raw and funny, it is just who he is and he makes no apologies. If you read the book as it was intended, it is greatly entertaining and filled with insights. You can take or leave his advice if applicable but you do not have to be a cook, chef, waiter, or anyone remotely connected to the restaurant business to love this book.
Anthony...... need I say more?!?!? July 12, 2010
Vinylsmack
I could listen to Anthony read a 1st grade primer!!! This book is hilarious, if you are a fan of Mr. Bourdain's wicked and offbeat sense of humour.
Kitchen Confidential July 9, 2010
krishnabone
This where it all started for Bourdain. Acerbic, witty and brutally honest. If you love his show "No Reservations", you'll love this book!
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