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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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October 11, 2009: I bought this book after entering into my "Julia phase". I saw the movie "Julie and Julia" and read an old Oprah conversation with Julia Child before she died. She listed this book as one of her favorite reads, so I said, what the heck....trust me, this guy is hilarious. I will never eat out in the same way, I will eye wait-staff, bartenders and sous chefs very closely. I will revere chefs from diners to 4 star restaurants or slam them mercilessly, whichever is appropriate...
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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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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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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 larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a...
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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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October 11, 2009: I bought this book after entering into my "Julia phase". I saw the movie "Julie and Julia" and read an old Oprah conversation with Julia Child before she died. She listed this book as one of her favorite reads, so I said, what the heck....trust me, this guy is hilarious. I will never eat out in the same way, I will eye wait-staff, bartenders and sous chefs very closely. I will revere chefs from diners to 4 star restaurants or slam them mercilessly, whichever is appropriate...
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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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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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October 11, 2009: I bought this book after entering into my "Julia phase". I saw the movie "Julie and Julia" and read an old Oprah conversation with Julia Child before she died. She listed this book as one of her favorite reads, so I said, what the heck....trust me, this guy is hilarious. I will never eat out in the same way, I will eye wait-staff, bartenders and sous chefs very closely. I will revere chefs from diners to 4 star restaurants or slam them mercilessly, whichever is appropriate...
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Confesiones De Un Chef/kitchen Confidential (Translation) (Paperback)
Confesiones De Un Chef/kitchen Confidential (Translation) (Paperback)
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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.
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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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Description: 0060934913 Light creases on covers. Shelfwear. Good Paperback 2001 Harper Perennial
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Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential. Bloomsbury USA. Hardcover. keywords: TV Cooks & Celebrity Chefs. 288 pages. 5/1/2000. . 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...
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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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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.
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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Description: A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique."...the kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages."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."Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo...
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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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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 the mobsters...
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In 1999, 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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