Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain

Cover of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat Before Reading 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 iconic Kitchen Confidential , became an even bigger sensation and megabestseller. 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, laying out Bourdain’s more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine. Including a handwritten introduction and annotations done by Bourdain about a decade after the book was originally published, this edition also features previously unpublished photos to accompany the now-classic text.

Author
Anthony Bourdain
Edition published
January 9, 2007
First published
August 1, 2000
Publication year
2007
First published
2000
My rating
4/5
Goodreads rating
4.19/5 from 401,023 ratings and 28,096 reviews
Read
June 24, 2014
Publisher
Ecco/Harper Perennial
Edition
Paperback · 312 pages
Language
English
Genres
Nonfiction, Memoir, Food, Biography, Audiobook, Cooking, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Book Club, Humor
ISBN
9780060899226
Added
June 8, 2014
Times read
1
Owned copies
0
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