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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain (2007, Trade Paperback, Revised edition)

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Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain died in June 2018. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. Author Anthony Bourdain. Title Kitchen Confidential.

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An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential , became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. Fans will love to return to this 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--this time with never-before-published material.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060899220
ISBN-13
9780060899226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50352499

Product Key Features

Book Title
Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Author
Anthony Bourdain
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Reference, Culinary, General, Essays & Narratives
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Cooking
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz

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Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Tx649.B58a3 2007
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages., A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique., "Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois." -- New York magazine "You'll laugh, you'll cry...you're gonna love it." -- Denver Post "The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages." -- USA Today Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory. -- USA Today "A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique." -- Newsweek "Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois." -- New York magazine "Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors." -- New York Times Book Review, ...the kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages., Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory., Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois.
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2007-280057
Dewey Decimal
641.5/092
Dewey Edition
22

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5 out of 5 stars
by autisticmystic28 Jun, 2018
As relevant now as it was 18 years ago- funny a hell.
IT is tragic that we have lost the eclectic personality known as " Tony " to his friends. His acerbic wit will be missed. Having worked in kitchens in the same era as Tony made this book a MUST READ- I enjoyed it immensely and laughed throughout the entire book. I could not put it down. Pretty amazing since the book is 18 years old. It is relevant today and will be for years to come. Great read- and RIP Tony. (:
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5 out of 5 stars
by machometer29 Apr, 2022
A wonderful book to read since we all have an intimate relationship with food.
Bourdain starts out by introducing you to food, how he got to know it and why it’s something more than “a substance one stuffs in one’s face when hungry — like filling up at a gas station.” He goes through his early relationship with food and why he made the jump from a kid who was surprised by a cold soup like Vichyssoise to a food-obsessed student at the Culinary Institute of America. The text skips over entire years in Bourdain’s life with ease, but you don’t notice. He focuses on the food, the good food as he puts it — everything else falls into place around it.
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5 out of 5 stars
by parnassusonthen...14 Sep, 2021
Read it even if you don't cook. Most of us eat, after all!
Put off reading this for years and finally got around to it. Wonderful book!! Am very pleased! 2
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5 out of 5 stars
by ellekaybee18 Mar, 2010
Reality Check 101
This book is an extremely interesting rendition of life behind the scenes in the average New York city restaurant. It is informative (when and when NOT to order the fish plate) and educational (which knives are best and where to put your money in cooking tools). But WARNING if you are easily offended by the most foul of language then by all means turn your virgin eyes away. Without the colorful words you would never really comprehend the brotherhood of a chef's world. The author gives us a bit too much knowledge of his private life but you forgive him everything as you see the compassionate, caring person behind the scenes. It is what it is....probably the most difficult of all the service professions. An interesting autobiography unravels seamlessly while you realize that this man is a genius when is comes to the oral gratification we civilized folks call dining.Read full review
5 out of 5 stars
by theestatepreser...07 Nov, 2008
Intelligent, Humorous, a Real Buffet of Words!
Anthony Bourdain serves up a tough, candid, humorous banquet of entertainment and information in Kitchen Confidential. From his earliest culinary experiences as a child in France- his palate for exotic food was captured while slurping a fresh oyster at age 9- Bourdain acts as a no reservations tour-guide into restaurant kitchens from New York City to Tokyo, divulging secrets that may cause the reader to consider whether going out to eat is EVER a good idea. Bourdain handles his computer keyboard like a chef's knife, slicing and dicing a deliciously funny, delectably shocking, devilishly appealing buffet of words that lay out his 25 years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine. Honesty and passion drip from every syllable as he shows, in memoir style, how his aggressive, addictive personality led him to become the galley master he is, instead of the assassin he might have been. Some readers may find his swaggering style and language revolting, but true connoisseurs of food and words will find the ingestion of Kitchen Confidential to be quite nourishing.Read full review

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Most relevant reviews

As relevant now as it was 18 years ago- funny a hell.

A wonderful book to read since we all have an intimate relationship with food.

Read it even if you don't cook. Most of us eat, after all!

Reality Check 101

Intelligent, Humorous, a Real Buffet of Words!

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