Kitchen Confidential
25th Anniversary Edition
Bloomsbury USA · Print & ebook · May 22, 2000
A NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING PHENOMENON "Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo." -New York magazine The bestselling breakout chef's tell-all from Anthony Bourdain, the globally beloved Emmy award-winning host of Parts Unknown and No Reservations.
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- Who it’s for
- For when you want culinary candor, wit, and a little hard-earned seasoning.
- Genres
- Food World Lives, Personal Memoirs, Chef & Restaurant Stories
- Published
- Bloomsbury USA, May 22, 2000
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A NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING PHENOMENON "Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo." -New York magazine The bestselling breakout chef's tell-all from Anthony Bourdain, the globally beloved Emmy award-winning host of Parts Unknown and No Reservations. In the now-classic memoir that launched Anthony Bourdain's long career, the globally beloved chef took us through the swinging kitchen doors and turned the culinary trade on its head.
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The result was a deliciously funny, shocking banquet of wild tales that drew from "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine.” Sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike, Bourdain recounts everything from his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he became hooked on chef work for life); from the stovetops 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, and Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter and leave you wanting more.
Why this clicks
Come here for
- Kitchen lore with travel-weathered edges
- Cocky, observant food-world voice
Expect
- Kitchen culture and craft
- Keepsake appeal; useful on a shelf
Where it sits
| Food World Lives | 76% |
|---|---|
| Chef & Restaurant Stories | 40% |
| Personal Memoirs | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Food World Lives
- Food Writing & Memoir
- Authors
- Anthony Bourdain, Random House Audio
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA
- Published
- May 22, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs