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 … 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.
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He did not care what source he got the meat for his menu, he does not have a conscious
He always said he was a cook and not a chef. What he actually was.. was a sociologist with a delightful sense of humor and a brilliant, realistic mind. I believe he was an inspiration and a true star. The world could use more Anthony’s. This book, which I think was his first and the one that brought him to our attention, reveals the real …
A look inside the seedier side of restaurants and the people who work there.
Read it just because it’s Bourdain
Good read
great read – will miss him
I am almost two decades late in reading what Newsweek called “a gonzo memoir.” Regrettably, what made me pick it up was Bourdain’s suicide by hanging in June 2018. This last act seems even more desolate when you’re aware not only of his many successes–this book among them–but of the utter hell he survived (and frequently caused) to achieve …
Ah, Tony. This book was a ground-breaker.
We miss you dude!
Real Life as a Chef!
The down and dirty.
Dog eat dog world of chefing.
The first and one of the best of the memorable Anthony Boudain. Laugh out loud funny and searingly upfront.
His best book. Could not get into the books that followed.
Raw , spicy and poignant. Ouch.
Anthony Bourdain jumps off the pages. As I read I caught myself hearing him telling the stories. I found more about his early years that I was not aware of. I got a greater appreciation of his life and his love of being a chef.
Did not like this at all. Would not recommend it.
Fans of Bourdain will love this book.
Raunchy, honest read. Might never eat out again tho! LOL! RIP!
While this was a very interesting book and entertaining book, I won’t read it again. It shows a dark side of life. The author had a very negative view of himself and he wasn’t really proud of anything except his scarred hands. He hurt himself in other ways too and it was hard to read about it. Eric Riperts “32 Yolks” relates a lot of the same …
I was a fan of Anthony Bourdain who I believed had the world’s best job–travel and food. But reading this book I realize that his life as a chef (or the other food prep jobs)_were extremely stressful and he spent years on drugs, cigarettes, and popping handfuls of aspirins. He also had periods of depression when he wasn’t working. How that …