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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
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential , he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine. 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...
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Kitchen Confidential (Updated Edition): Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
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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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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...
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Audio CD: 0 pages (2005-10-11). Publisher: Random House Audio; 2005-10-11. Label: Random House Audio. Format: Audiobook, Unabridged. Studio: Random House Audio. ISBN: 073933235X. Average Customer Review: based on 622 reviews. Sales Rank in Books: #241028.
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Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable shocking banquet that lays out his 25 years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine. From his first oyster in the Gironde to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from...
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Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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,...
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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
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential , he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine. 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...
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Kitchen Confidential (Updated Edition): Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
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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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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...
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