Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Revised edition) (Paperback)

from JeffV

Anthony Bourdain's debut book covers his life before his TV show, No Reservations. A memoir of sorts, it covers his rise in the often-seedy world of professional kitchens. The characters we meet through Bourdain aren't those most of would invite to dinner, but it seems we should forgive their man...

from YogiABB

I picked this book up in a bookstore a couple weeks ago. For years I've occasionally watchined Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" show on the Food Network. He always seemed like a ready for anything, at ease guy as he goes around the world eating chopped lamb brains from street vendors and othe...

from maravedi

I think KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL takes on a different flavor to the working cook or chef, than it does to the layman. It talks about the things that our professional pride would "never" allow us to let happen, but everyone who's worked in the kitchen for any length of time has in fact seen happen. No...

from bookworm12

Bourdain's balls-to-the-wall memoir of his time as a chef is intense, but it's also mesmerizing. It's a behind-the-scenes view of the hectic, cutthroat world of cooking. I don't envy the lives of the people in this world, but they do fascinate me. I can't imagine choosing a life where every weeke...

from StoutHearted

If you can read this, and still want to be a chef, you have truly found your calling. Bourdain describes the grueling work involved in running a restaurant, and it's enough to curl your hair: long hours, knife wounds, cranky waitstaff, and unreasonable demands from reastaurant owners in over thei...