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Kitchen Confidential, Insider's Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
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Description
A pocket-size edition of the megabestselling classic, hand-annotated throughout by Anthony Bourdain himself.
Bourdain's deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade lays out more than a quarter century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine.
About the Author
Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, in addition to the mega-bestseller Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour. He is the host of the popular television show No Reservations.
Praise for Kitchen Confidential, Insider's Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly…
“Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois.”
-New York magazine
“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry...you’re gonna love it.”
-Denver Post
“The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages.”
-USA Today
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
Bourdain’s prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois.
-New York magazine
Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors.
-New York Times Book Review





