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

An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition

Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens be...show more

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312 pages

Average rating: 7.82

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Anonymous
Dec 04, 2023
8/10 stars
I've grown to love Bourdain by watching No Reservations on the Travel channel. The man is incredibly passionate about food albeit somewhat of an asshole from time to time.

I snagged the audio version of this book, read by Bourdain. It's actually an entertaining memoir about the underbelly of the culinary world. I really had no idea that restaurant kitchens could be as seedy and dangerous as a back ally in LA. This book was released in 2000 and in ...read more
Maddieholmes
Aug 28, 2023
8/10 stars
Content warning for drug/alcohol use and misuse, graphic scenes, violence, abuse, and related topics. I really enjoyed this memoir. The underbelly of the food service industry is so fascinating, I learned things I didn't know and maybe didn't want to know (I gagged a little bit when he talked about what happened when someone cut themselves at one of the restaurants). There's a tell-it-like-it-is attitude, which works so well with the humor in thi...read more
E Clou
May 10, 2023
8/10 stars
An impressively profane and funny memoir about life in restaurant kitchens. You can tell from his language and allusions that he's been hyper-educated (not just in food) though tries to put forward a bad-boy chef persona. I read this after Bourdain died and so there were some passages I found chilling and nearly prescient, but I can't make sense of his suicide at all.
richardbakare
Jun 05, 2022
10/10 stars
What is served on our dinner plates is, hopefully, splendid and tasteful. How it gets there is nothing short of an entropic sequence of movements. The energetic output resembling a colony of ants synchronized in their endeavor. There is a startling level of madness to the method behind each and every plate you get at a restaurant. This memoir pulls back the curtain to reveal the magic and chaos behind every serving. Anthony Bourdain, in his own...read more

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