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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Author: Anthony Bourdain

In this tough, candid memoir, Anthony Bourdain, who has been a chef at several well-known restaurant...
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ISBN-10: 0060934913
ISBN-13: 9780060934910
May 2001
Publisher: Ecco Pr
Language: English
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In this tough, candid memoir, Anthony Bourdain, who has been a chef at several well-known restaurants, takes the reader backstage to reveal the secrets of restaurant kitchens--some of them not so appetizing, most of them hilarious, all of them illuminating., In this tough, candid memoir, Anthony Bourdain, who has been a chef at several well-known restaurants, takes the reader backstage to reveal the secrets of restaurant kitchens--some of them not so appetizing, most of them hilarious, all of them illuminating. Bourdain's alcohol and adrenaline-soaked world, both enticing and repellant, will endlessly fascinate readers.

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Height:8.0 in
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"[T]remendously appealing, joyously penned....[A]n elegant meld of insider reporting on the food business and personal memoir....Resentment and rage, Bourdain's cherished motivators, fuel many of his life choices but not this narrative. He knows that the curiosity and aggression that might have made him a suicide or a killer are the same that turned him into a cook. He needs to be contained (pretty much every minute of the day and night), and he's found his ideal holding cell in the restaurant kitchen, where he's free to be a barking, swaggering, finger-sniffing, keen-eyed beast."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Laurie Stone (07/31/2000)

"In a style partaking of Hunter S. Thompson, Iggy Pop and a little Jonathan Swift, Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors little dreamed of by the trusting public....You may find this revolting. I think the guy is hysterical. He's also, beneath it all, devoted to good food and the very difficult life that goes with cooking it professionally."
New York Times Book Review - Thomas McNamee (06/04/2000)

"KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL discloses further restaurant secrets (you may think twice about ordering chicken, for example), but it's more a rollicking tale of Bourdain's culinary journey....[W]hat is most striking about KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL is the utmost passion Bourdain displays."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Courtney Weaver (07/09/2000)


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