Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Paperback - 2010
by Anthony Bourdain
About this book
Published in 2000 by Bloomsbury, Kitchen Confidential was Bourdain’s memoir and behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens, a follow-up to his popular and shocking article published the April 19th 1999 edition of The New Yorker titled "Don't Eat Before Reading This."
The book is both a personal confessional, including stories of Bourdain’s misdeeds and weaknesses, including his drug use, and an industry commentary, divulging money-saving secrets of restaurants and things for consumers to avoid. Bourdain called the book "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."
First Edition Identification
The first edition was published in 2000 by Bloomsbury.
Details
- Title Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- Author Anthony Bourdain
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language CHI
- Publisher Tai WAN Shang Wu/Tsai Fong Books
- Date 2010-07
- ISBN 9789570525045 / 9570525045
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B