Kitchen Confidential SIGNED by Anthony Bourdain 1st/ 3RD PRINT NF/ Fine!

Anthony Bourdain

ISBN 10: 158234082X / ISBN 13: 9781582340821

Published by Bloomsbury USA, 2000

1ST EDITION Kitchen Confidential SIGNED by Anthony Bourdain (3rd impression, published by Bloomsbury). Near fine/ fine. A signed early print copy of Kitchen Confidential in NF+ condition is scarce. Signed by Tony on a Food Network bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. Condition notes: some crinkling to the dust jacket at the head and foot of the book along the spine. Book was obtained with the dust jacket already protected in a mylar protector cover. This was likely signed circa 2001 or 2002 sometime after a Cook's Tour was released in 2001. Rather ironic Tony signed on a Food Network bookplate, considering what he said about them in the first chapter of Medium Raw- "I was so supremely naive about so many things when I wrote Kitchen Confidential- my hatred for all things Food Network being just one of them." Ships from MN via UPS 2nd day air Mon-Fri, secure packaging. Seller Inventory # ABE-1743746210706

Synopsis:

The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown.

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 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 the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the east village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable.

Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You'll beg the chef for more, please.

Review: 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 larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn

Bibliographic Details

Title: Kitchen Confidential SIGNED by Anthony ...
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition