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Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By Anthony Bourdain
Series: Ecco
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Kitchen Confidential is Anthony Bourdain's frank and unsparing memoir of his years working in the high-pressure world of restaurants. With acerbic humour and brutal honesty, Bourdain reveals life behind the kitchen door, sharing wild and true stories of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine from his quarter-century in the culinary trade. This updated edition includes new material that fans will relish.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for readers interested in culinary arts, restaurant insiders, and those who enjoy gritty, candid memoirs about life behind the scenes in a demanding industry.

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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.

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An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition.

Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.

Fans will love to return to this 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—this time with never-before-published material.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780060899226

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers

Edition: Updated ed.

Illustration: Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 201.0mm

Weight: 263g

Pages: 352

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Anthony Bourdain Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Series: Ecco

About the Author

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.

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