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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

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  • Hardcover
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158234082X
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9781582340821
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Bloomsbury USA, May 2000. Hardcover . Used Good/yes Very Good.

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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Bookseller
Pella Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
227427
Title
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Author
Anthony Bourdain
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used Good
Jacket Condition
yes Very Good
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
158234082X
ISBN 13
9781582340821
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published
May 2000
Pages
320

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