Kitchen ConfidentialKitchen 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 - christinejoseph - LibraryThingculinary Underbelly — I'll say — food will never look the same — many strange weird tales of Kitchen — madness, $, love of food! — Eating in Japan — FISH Extravaganza Cooking school — at BHS ... Read full review
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User Review - Acia - LibraryThingThoroughly enjoyed reading this book and found myself laughing out loud on some passages. I wasn’t shocked by the inflated ego, macho culture, vulnerability of Latin American immigrants, drug, sex ... Read full review
Contents
| 3 | |
| 9 | |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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