Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

Anthony Bourdain

ISBN 10: 0060899220 / ISBN 13: 9780060899226

Published by Harper Perennial, 2007

About this Item

Signed. Flat signed by Anthony Bourdain on title page. First Perennial Edition, 11th printing. No markings on text. Minor wear to corners of spine. Minor dog-eared pages on bottom of 20 pages. Minor moisture marks on bottom pages of the last 24 pages. would be consider Good condition if not for water marks on last pages. includes 2 tickets to Anthony Bourdain at Mahalia Jackson Theater in 2010. More photos on request. Includes bonus book = Graphic novel co-written by Bourdain, "Get Jiro! Blood and Sushi". Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri. Seller Inventory # mon0000725903

Bibliographic Details

Title: Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures ...

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Acceptable

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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.

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