Description: The updated edition of the wickedly funny and insightful bestseller filled with "25 years of sex, drugs, bad behavior, and haute cuisine," now includes three new chapters about the author's adventures since the book was originally published.
Brief description:
Anthony Bourdain was the author of the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, World Travel, and Appetites and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. His work appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018.
Review Quotes:
"The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages." - USA Today
"Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois." - New York magazine
"You'll laugh, you'll cry...you're gonna love it." - Denver Post
Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory. - USA Today
"A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique." - Newsweek
"Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois." - New York magazine
"[Bourdain's] avalanche of colorful stories results in a goodly number of maxims to eat by; namely, never piss off the chef, lest he do the same on your mussels." - Esquire
"Hysterical... in a style partaking of Hunter S. Thompson, Iggy Pop, and a little Jonathan Swift, Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors." - New York Times Book Review
"Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors." - New York Times Book Review