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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Black paper covered boards. - 2000
by BOURDAIN, Anthony
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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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Details
- Title Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
- Author BOURDAIN, Anthony
- Binding Black paper-covered boards.
- Edition First edition / First printing.
- Condition New
- Pages x, 307 pages.
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco / HarperCollins,, New York:
- Date 2000.
- Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 18821
- 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)
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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.
Anthony Bourdain is the author of multiple books about cooking and food including the follow-up to Kitchen Confidential -
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."
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.
Media reviews
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
