Kitchen Confidential

Insider's Edition

Anthony Bourdain

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Bloomsbury
29 June 2013

Autobiography: general; Cookery, food & drink

THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER: 'The greatest book about food ever written'

'A compelling book with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois ... more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel' Sunday Times

'Extraordinary ... written with a clarity and a clear-eyed wit to put the professional food-writing fraternity to shame'

Observer

After twenty-five years of

'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all.

From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the 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, as shocking as they are funny.

By: Anthony Bourdain
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 268g
ISBN: 9781408845042
ISBN 10: 1408845040
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 29 June 2013
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City. He is also the author of two novels GONE BAMBOO and BONE IN THE THROAT to be published by Cannongate in March 2000. His expose of New York restaurants 'Don't Eat Before Reading This' was published in the NEW YORKER in 1999 attracting huge attention in America and the U.K. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL is his first book of non-fiction.

Reviews for Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition

A compelling book with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois ... more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel * Sunday Times * Fantastic: as lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli * Daily Telegraph * Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino * A.A. Gill * Extraordinary ... written with a clarity and a clear-eyed wit to put the professional food-writing fraternity to shame * Observer *