Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1408845040
- ISBN 13
- 9781408845042
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is both Bourdain's professional memoir and a behind-the-scenes look at the professional culinary industry. He describes this work as an intense, unpleasant, and sometimes hazardous staffed by misfits. Bourdain believes this industry is not for hobbyists and that anyone entering the industry must have a masochistic, irrational dedication to cooking. ' The book alternates between a confessional narrative and an industry commentary, providing insightful and humorous anecdotes on the cooking trade. Bourdain details some
Synopsis
A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors. 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." Anthony Bourdain is the author of multiple books about cooking and food including the follow-up to Kitchen Confidential -
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- Title
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- Author
- Anthony Bourdain
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2000 reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1408845040
- ISBN 13
- 9781408845042
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Date Published
- May 22, 2018
- Pages
- 362
- Size
- 12.8 x 2.4 x 12.8 cm
- Keywords
- Celebrity Chefs, Cookbooks, Collectables
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