Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 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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User Review  - bensdad00 - LibraryThing

Some of the relevance and shock value has worn off as kitchen memoirs are no longer a novelty, but the readability of the material and the universality of the characters and lessons keep it as interesting today as it was upon publication.

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User Review  - Narshkite - LibraryThing

The food memoir gold standard. Funny, scary, disturbing, fascinating, and a little educational. I thought I had a pretty hard charging 80's in NYC experience, Pshaw! I am a pissant good girl beside ...

Contents

• A Note from the Chef: 3
• Food Is Good: 9
• Food Is Sex: 19
• Food Is Pain 2 5: 25
• Inside the CIA: 36
• The Return of Mal Carne: 45
• Who Cooks?: 55
• From Our Kitchen to Your Table: 64
• How to Cook Like the Pros: 75
• Owners Syndrome and Other Medical Anomalies: 84
• Bigfoot: 90
• Make My Bones Io 5: 105
• The Happy Time: 120
• Chef of the Future: 128
• Apocalypse Now: 134
• The Wilderness Years: 144
• Know About Meat I 53: 153
• Tuscan Interlude: 163
• A Day in the Life: 183
• The Level of Discourse 2 2 I: 221
• Other Bodies 22 9: 229
• Adam RealLastNameUnknown 2 35: 235
• Department of Human Resources 2 46: 246
• The Life of Bryan 2 55: 255
• Mission to Tokyo 2 72: 272
• So You Want to Be a Chef?: 293
• Kitchens Closed: 300

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Kitchen Confidential
• Author: Anthony Bourdain
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2008
• ISBN: 1596917245, 9781596917248
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Cooking / Essays & Narratives