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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
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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Kitchen Confidential (Hardcover)
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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Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce was created by a culinary artist of the highest order a sensitive highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of 'wacked-out moral degenerates dope fiends refugees a thuggish assortment of drunks sneak thieves sluts and psychopaths ' in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and l
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Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential has already turned a few stomachs with its frank discussions of what goes on in the kitchens of America's favorite restaurants. He revels in anecdotes that would make an Ozzy Osbourne roadie question the catered stuff on his plate. Sex, drugs, sex near food while on drugs: Bourdain gleefully dishes the dirt on some of his former haunts, from the fish houses of New England to the elegant-on-the-outside eateries of New York. Yet the tone he takes with his joyously...
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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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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
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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Confesiones De Un Chef/kitchen Confidential (Translation) (Paperback)
Confesiones De Un Chef/kitchen Confidential (Translation) (Paperback)
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Books. Confesiones De Un Chef/kitchen Confidential [Spanish]
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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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Don't go out to eat until you've listened to these wickedly funny tales of the restaurant biz by a wise-guy New York chef. Learn why not to order fish on Mondays, or hollandaise – ever. "Enticing... [He] holds no punches as he spillsthe beans about food, food handlers, and food fondlers, and his fast-paced, colorful reading brings a personal dynamism to this exposé of haute cuisine."—Booklist
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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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Description: 0060934913 Light creases on covers. Shelfwear. Good Paperback 2001 Harper Perennial
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Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential. HarperCollins Publishers. Paperback. keywords: TV Cooks & Celebrity Chefs. 352 pages. 1/1/2007. P.S. Series. In 2006, 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...
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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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ISBN: 0747553556 | Paper | Bloomsbury Publishing | Published June 2001
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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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The ever-popular Kitchen Confidential is now available in Spanish. Get the truth about the real conditions of a three-star restaurant, and read about what goes on behind kitchen doors. Find out from Bourdain why you should not order fish on a Monday, why it is not wise to order well-done meat and why seafood frittata is not a good selection for brunch. ''Hysterical, Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors.'' New York Times. Description in Spanish: ''Os quiero hablar...
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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) (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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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Audio Cassette)
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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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