Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By Anthony Bourdain
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060899226, 352pp.)

Publication Date: December 19, 2006

Categories: Cooking, Personal Memoirs

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Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York, and he is the host of the series No Reservations on the Travel Channel. He is the author of A Cook's Tour, Les Halles Cookbook, and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo.

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"...the kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages."
-USA Today

Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors.
-New York Times Book Review

"You'll laugh, you'll cry...you're gonna love it."
-Denver Post

"Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois."
-New York magazine

Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois.
-New York magazine

Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory.
-USA Today

A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique.
-Newsweek