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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. 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...
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General Biography & Autobiography - If you've ever been curious about just what goes on in the kitchen of your favorite eatery, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is just the book you've ... - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Books)
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Kitchen Confidential (Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly) (Updated) (Paperback)
Description In this tough, candid memoir, Anthony Bourdain, who has been a chef at several well-known restaurants, takes the reader backstage to reveal the secrets of restaurant kitchens--some of them not so appetizing, most of them hilarious, all of them illuminating. Bourdain's alcohol and adrenaline-soaked world, both enticing and repellant, will endlessly fascinate readers.
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The bestselling author of "Don't Eat Before You Read This" expands his appetizer into a deliciously funny, delightfully shocking banquet that lays out his 25 years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, by Bourdain, Updated Edition Bourdain, Anthony
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"[T]remendously appealing, joyously penned....[A]n elegant meld of insider reporting on the food business and personal memoir....Resentment and rage, Bourdain's cherished motivators, fuel many of his life choices but not this narrative. He knows that the curiosity and aggression that might have made him a suicide or a killer are the same that turned him into a cook. He needs to be contained (pretty much every minute of the day and night), and he's found his ideal holding cell in the restaurant kitchen...
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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois.Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors."...the kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages."Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory.A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging more >>
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A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Audio Cassette)
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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material
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Books. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Description: 0060934913 Light creases on covers. Shelfwear. Good Paperback 2001 Harper Perennial
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Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
In 1999, 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...
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Confesiones de un chef/ Kitchen Confidential: Aventuras En El Trasfondo De La Cocina/ Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Compact Disc)
From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Bourdain's brilliantly written and wonderfully read, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter.
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After a few weeks of this, we took a night train to Paris, where we met up with my father and a spanking new Rover Sedan Mark III, our touring car. In Paris, we stayed at the Hôtel Lutétia, then a large, slightly shabby old pile on Boulevard Haussmann. The menu selections for my brother and me expanded somewhat, to include steak-frites and steak haché (hamburger). We did all the predictable touristy things: climbed the Tour Eiffel, picnicked in the Bois de Boulogne, marched past the Great Works at...
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