Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook Hardcover - 2010
by Bourdain, Anthony
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- Hardcover
This long-awaited follow-up to "Kitchen Confidential" contains the confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the more controversial figures in food. Bourdain tracks his own unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to celebrity chef and globe-traveling professional eater and drinker.
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- Title Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
- Author Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Date 2010
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0061718947I5N10
- ISBN 9780061718946 / 0061718947
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.21 x 1.06 in (23.39 x 15.77 x 2.69 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Gastronomy, Bourdain, Anthony
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010485115
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
The long-awaited follow-up to the megabestseller Kitchen Confidential
In the ten years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, from Monday fish to the breadbasket conspiracy, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business--and for Anthony Bourdain.
Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.
Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs that he compares to a mafia summit, Bourdain pulls back the curtain--but never pulls his punches--on the modern gastronomical revolution, as only he can. Cutting right to the bone, Bourdain sets his sights on some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, the young superstar chef who has radicalized the fine-dining landscape; the revered Alice Waters, whom he treats with unapologetic frankness; the Top Chef winners and losers; and many more.
And always he returns to the question "Why cook?" Or the more difficult "Why cook well?" Medium Raw is the deliciously funny and shockingly delectable journey to those answers, sure to delight philistines and gourmands alike.
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- BookPage, 06/01/2010, Page 0
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/18/2010, Page 102
- New York Times Book Review, 07/18/2010, Page 12