Kitchen Confidential

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• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly By Anthony Bourdain

  Anthony Bourdain is a chef who can really dish. He can also write with style and read his words with an actor's skill. His book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a walk on the wild side of haute cuisine that could only b ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

• A Man’s Man’s World

  One of the defining sites for modern social science was the doorway dividing the kitchen from the dining-room in an early 1950s Shetland hotel. On the kitchen side of the door casually employed crofters swiped their filthy fingers through any passing ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

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  Eaten raw

  I just don't get why people waste their time with adventurous, fiction books - the James Bond, Jack Ryan type - where they could find even more thrilling, shocking tales taking place no more far away that their favourite restaurant at the end of the street. Bourdain's memoir of his life of excesses ... (continue)

  I just don't get why people waste their time with adventurous, fiction books - the James Bond, Jack Ryan type - where they could find even more thrilling, shocking tales taking place no more far away that their favourite restaurant at the end of the street. Bourdain's memoir of his life of excesses as a chef in New York City and around has created a genre, but most of all it's one of the most entertaining and nail-biting books I have found in a long time. It deals with the most sought after of human pleasure, the one that tops money and even (sometimes) sex: food.

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  Alessio said on Jun 10, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Punk rock line cooks forever!

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  Wtimbers said on May 16, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Good, funny, outspoken, informative. It could have done with 50 pages less: there are only so many ways you can repeat how messy and bad ass a kitchen is without starting to become boring.

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  Demonio Pellegrino said on Feb 8, 2011 | Add your feedback

• Any Bourdain book is fun...this was his first.

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  ProfT said on Jun 30, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Loved it the first time. Read the updated version in 2007, and it was still rang true. It seemed to drag a bit towards the end of the updated version, but was still very enjoyable. This is a book any restaurant worker can identify with.

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  Missmath144 said on Sep 2, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  "The cooks are dysfunctional, mercenary lot, fringe-dwellers motivated by money, the peculiar lifestyle of cooking and a grim pride."

  “When the restaurant opened, we’d begin every shift with a solemn invocation of the first moments of Apocalypse Now […]’This is the end, my brand-new friend… th ... (continue)

  "The cooks are dysfunctional, mercenary lot, fringe-dwellers motivated by money, the peculiar lifestyle of cooking and a grim pride."

  “When the restaurant opened, we’d begin every shift with a solemn invocation of the first moments of Apocalypse Now […]’This is the end, my brand-new friend… the end…’we’d soak the entire range-top with brandy and ignite it, causing a huge, napalm-like fireball to rush up into the hoods”

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  noodlecup said on Dec 24, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 320 Pages
• Edition: Export Ed
• ISBN-10: 0747554250
• ISBN-13: 9780747554257
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, Limited
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2001
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Libri Italiani, Česká kniha, Svenska böcker

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