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Kitchen Confidential

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Bloomsbury Publishing, Dec 10, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages
Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."
Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdain's first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnesses for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the east village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You'll beg the chef for more, please.

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Enjoyable writing style. - Goodreads
Bourdain's writing is hysterical. - Goodreads
Great insight into the culinary world. - Goodreads
Love the behind the scenes storytelling. - Goodreads
The ending really confuses me. - Goodreads
The ultimate standard of any book is the prose. - Goodreads

Review: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

User Review  - Nadine - Goodreads

I'm familiar with Anthony Bourdain's television shows, but I was surprised to discover that he was probably holding back when shooting them. Kitchen Confidential profiles the sordid underbelly of the ... Read full review

Review: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

User Review  - Louise - Goodreads

Food service is difficult work. You're on you feet in continual motion for hours. Your brain is constantly assembling, re-assembling and deleting detailed orders. It's HOT in the kitchen. Can you ... Read full review

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About the author (2008)

Anthony Bourdain is the author of Bone in the Throat. This is his first work of non-fiction. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.

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