Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0060899220
- ISBN 13
- 9780060899226
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About This Item
Anthony Bourdain's wickedly funny-yet inspiring-memoir/expos , Kitchen Confidential, provides a gritty and behind-the-scenes look into life behind the kitchen doors. Bourdain's skillful storytelling captivates and shocks readers, stealing their appetite while leaving them begging for more. His passion for his trade shines through as he takes readers on the wild journey that is his culinary career as he goes from dishwasher to executive chef; from the East Village, to Tokyo, Paris, and back to New York again.
Synopsis
A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors. Published in 2000 by Bloomsbury, Kitchen Confidential was Bourdain’s memoir and behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens, a follow-up to his popular and shocking article published the April 19th 1999 edition of The New Yorker titled "Don't Eat Before Reading This." The book is both a personal confessional, including stories of Bourdain’s misdeeds and weaknesses, including his drug use, and an industry commentary, divulging money-saving secrets of restaurants and things for consumers to avoid. Bourdain called the book "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Anthony Bourdain is the author of multiple books about cooking and food including the follow-up to Kitchen Confidential -
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- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ0042760
- Title
- Kitchen Confidential
- Author
- Anthony Bourdain
- Format/Binding
- Previous owner inscription
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Updated & Revised Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060899220
- ISBN 13
- 9780060899226
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007-01
- Keywords
- restaurant, tell-all, memoir, culinary career
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food/Cooking;
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