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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
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
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
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551 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: May 13, 2008 Type: User Review |
The Hunter S Thompson of the Foodie World
This book is a wonderfully entertaining story of how one particular chef came to be a Celebrity Chef. What really keeps things moving, from start to finish, is Bourdain's writing style; simultaneously cynical, amusing and reflective. He is not...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great book
A very truthful and witty account how how a chef came to be. It's very honest. I love his recommendations too.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 06, 2008 Type: User Review |
Something Completely Different
Kitchen Confidential is a brash, entertaining, and funny look at life behind the scenes in restaurants. The book is a combination of expose, biography, and blunt advice for those interested in working in the restaurant industry.
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 28, 2008 Type: User Review |
Wow!
I've been a fan of Mr. Bourdain for a while. I had no idea that his early career was so much like my own foray into the culinary arts. Great book, down to earth and brutally honest look at the dark underbelly of working in a kitchen. Very funny...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
great book that transcends foodie genre
i picked this up after becoming addicted to bourdain's travel channel show -- no reservations. this book is what jettisoned the previously unknown NYC chef into the spotlight.
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
Love the guy, loved the book . . . .
. . . . but someone's got to learn to spell "Ansul". Very distracting (twice)!
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
I now know why I could never work in this industry
Bourdain's book manages to perfectly capture the essence and the ideas of what it means to work in the restaurant business.
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 06, 2008 Type: User Review |
GREAT BOOK
INFORMATIVE AND HILLAROUSLY FUNNY, I HAD TROUBLE PUTTING IT DOWN AND WISHED IT WAS LONGER. WHAT A STYLE - I LOVED IT!!!!!!
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 05, 2008 Type: User Review |
Been there
Having previously worked in the food industry, I (like most others Bourdain has spoke of since this book was published) see it as the cold hard truth, with a lot of his self-proclaimed snarkiness involved. It wasn't meant to be an expose, he...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
kitchen confidential
i think this book give the reader a great insight tothe inner workings of anthony bourdain. i found the book very interesting i could hardly put it down.
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