Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- near fine/near fine
- Seller
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Anacortes, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bloomsbury, 1999. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. near fine in a near fine jacket. first printing of the first edition with complete numberline. bourdain had published two mystery novels before this but they were commercial failures. bourdain was working as a chef when this essay helped garner him a book deal for what would become kitchen confidential. includes a topps limited edition playing card of bourdain. 1st
Synopsis
All is not well at the Dreadnought Grill...the chef has a smack habit, the owner has been set up by the FBI and in the midst of this, the sous-chef Tommy is just trying to do his job. As depraved as it is hilarious, Anthony Bourdain's first novel is street smart and spiced with drugged-up savvy, foul-mouthed feds and salty mob speak. With a cast of unforgettables like the hitman who covers himself in clingfilm to avoid leaving fingerprints and a plot with more twists than a plate of spaghetti, Bone in the Throat rocks through the streets of Manhattan at a blistering pace. The story revolves around a young ambitious chef who takes a job in his cousin’s restaurant in Little Italy and unwittingly gets caught in the midst of mob-antics and the FBI. The novel is gritty- offering an authentic look in the kitchens of NYC chefs, albeit laced with mafia violence. The New York Times Book Review calls Bone in the Throat "A prodigiously self-assured first novel. . . the author's comic vision goes beyond original. It is deliciously depraved." Publishers Weekly praised “the kitchen antics reveal a real love for-and knowledge of-cooking, including a mouth-watering recipe for Portuguese Seafood Chowder, complete with squid, lobster, swordfish and cherrystone clams.”-
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- Bookseller
- Coast to Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48
- Title
- Kitchen Confidential
- Author
- Anthony Bourdain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
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Coast to Coast Books
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Anacortes, Washington
About Coast to Coast Books
Coast to Coast specializes in rare books, art and ephemera. The collections revolve around books and art related to music and film as well as Pacific Northwest literature and history, rare childrens books, science fiction, modern literature, mystery and counter-culture.
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