Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain - 2010

Bloomsbury, London, 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 281 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - 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-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he's seen and what he's seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: ‘Why cook?' Or the harder one to answer: ‘Why cook well?' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; United States; 2000s; Cooking, Wine & Dining. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781408809341. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9181. . 9781408809341