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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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1073 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 11, 2008 Type: User Review |
Tasty Read
Kitchen Confidential is a series of semi-chronological biographical essays(pre-Food Network) that begins as an exposť of the restaurant industry and end as an ode to the characters chef Anthony Bourdain met along the way to his dream job.
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Foodies Beware!
I was a frequent viewer of Mr. Bourdain's program "No Reservations" on the Travel Channel so I purchased this book already knowing and loving his style as an edgy chef/traveler.
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
Good Book Now Even Better
For anyone who's ever done any kind of commercial cooking this book, and it's earlier version, is a MUST read. I'm a retired line cook and I can assure all potential readers that Tony knows of what he speaks. For 'civilians', the avid home cook or...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 13, 2008 Type: User Review |
Good book
This guy rocks, and his books are as good as his tv show (No Reservations).;)
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 11, 2008 Type: User Review |
Kitchen Confidential
This is a great book, a MUST have for any chef!!! Bourdain is one of a kind.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Great Read!
I am giving this book a 5/5 because throughout the whole book, you are entertained, and want to keep reading. You find out how he makes his way through the cooking career, how he makes his way to the top. This book describes to you what goes on...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 30, 2008 Type: User Review |
one of the best books ive ever read. and ive read some good books!
this is such an awesome book. he's one cocky guy but man is this a good well written book introducing you to the underground cooking culture and what really happens. i dont cook and i still was entertained. i read the entire thing in two sittings...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
For foodies everywhere - who want the behind-the-scenes tour
I read this book long before it had hit the better sellers list and he had launched himself into as he would describe "the evil" of reality tv fame. (In fact, this was the book that did that for him). Every once in awhile now, I go back to...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 19, 2008 Type: User Review |
Scattered, Hard to Follow, and .... boring
I was really looking forward to reading this book because I enjoy Chef Bourdain on the Travel Channel. However, the book is very hard to follow - I could not keep track of where he was in his career or what was really happening.
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 1.00/5 |
| 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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