Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
by: Anthony Bourdain
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
EAN: 9780060899226
ISBN: 0060899220
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: January 09, 2007
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: January 09, 2007
Sales Rank: 671
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material
Amazon.com Review:
Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of 'wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths,' in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: 'There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it.' --Sumi Hahn
Average Rating: 
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- Fiendishly delightfulBy all accounts, this should be a lousy book. The life story of a middle-aged, former substance-abusing, ... Read More
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- Entertaining, Hyperbole or NotWhether or not this account is 100% factual, it IS 100% entertaining, provided one has the stomach for such ... Read More
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- Fun, but no "must read" for aspiring chefsWhen I started culinary school, I was told that this book was a "must read" for anyone who wanted to be a chef. ... Read More
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- An interesting readAnthony Bourdain is sort of a cynical character and portrays this dark, drug infested culinary life. I think he ... Read More
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- Witty, Sarcastic, and HonestHe had me at "preface".
I haven't actually finished reading it so this review may be premature. Immediately ... Read More
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