Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain
- Used
- Condition
- UsedAcceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0747553556
- ISBN 13
- 9780747553557
- Seller
-
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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 -
Read More: Identifying first editions of Kitchen Confidential
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Goodwill (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2Y6OIV0066IY_ns
- Title
- Kitchen Confidential
- Author
- Anthony Bourdain
- Book Condition
- UsedAcceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0747553556
- ISBN 13
- 9780747553557
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- June 4, 2001
Terms of Sale
Goodwill
Address changes and cancellations after shipment may result in only a partial refund amount that does not include shipping postage. This also applies to returns/refunds made for discretionary returns.
About the Seller
Goodwill
About Goodwill
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.