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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Hardcover - 2000

by Bourdain, Anthony

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed

New York chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir and expos. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable. "Kitchen Confidential" reveals what Bourdain calls "25 years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine".

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New York: Bloomsbury, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Later Printing. A solid tight copy. This copy has some slight lean, light soil to the edges of the text block. The priced jacket has some light rubbing, light edge wear, several creases to the front flap. If this copy was in fact signed by Bourdain it was not signed by Bourdain with his usual crazy wild signature usually applied with a sharpie. This copy has a full page inscription with a ball point that seems to have some thought behind it...possibly to a friend????. Dear Kathy Bon Appetité (Appetite?), I hope this culinary vignettes are tasty & to your liking. Love Tony and dated by the author 25 Aug 2000 Providence, RI To me it seems awful wordy to be a forgery but who knows...maybe it is. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. .
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  • Title Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
  • Author Bourdain, Anthony
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 047710
  • ISBN 9781582340821 / 158234082X
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.88 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
  • Library of Congress subjects Cookery, Bourdain, Anthony
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003267610
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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About this book

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  -

Summary

Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls “twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine.” Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain’s shocking, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.” Bourdain spared no one’s appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same “take-no-prisoners” attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdain’s first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnesses for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the east village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain’s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You’ll beg the chef for more, please.

First Edition Identification

The first edition was published in 2000 by Bloomsbury. 

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2000, Page 1827
  • Entertainment Weekly, 03/04/2011, Page 76
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2005, Page 125
  • New York Times, 06/04/2000, Page 53
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/24/2000, Page 74

About the author

Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary; and the cookbooks Appetites and Les Halles Cookbook.

Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy Award-winning No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC.

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