Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Dec 10, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages

Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential.

Bourdain spares 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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Bourdain has came a long way from a heroin addict to a well-polished world traveler. Kitchen Confidential is as charming as it is well-written. I couldn't put the book down until I reached the last page.

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

Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary; and the cookbooks Appetites and Les Halles Cookbook.

Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy Award–winning No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Kitchen Confidential
• Author: Anthony Bourdain
• Edition: unabridged, reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2008
• ISBN: 1596917245, 9781596917248
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Culinary; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Business & Economics / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Cooking / Essays & Narratives; Cooking / General