Book

Bourdain, Anthony, author.

Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly / Anthony Bourdain.

Updated edition

New York : Harper Perennial,an Ecco Book, 2007.

©2007

xviii, 312 pages, 22 pages : 21cm.

"A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine - now with all-new, never-before-published material." -- Publisher's Description.

Bourdain, Anthony.

Cooks -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Autobiographies.

"An Ecco Book"

"First [edition] published in 2000 by Bloomsbury USA." -- Verso.

Additional paging [22 pages] following text consists of "P.S. insights, interviews & more..." with information about Bourdain; an interview with him, and an article from The London Observer recommending eateries in New York.

A note from the chef -- Food is good -- Food is sex -- Food is pain -- Inside the CIA -- The return of the mal carne -- Who cooks? -- From our kitchen to your table -- How to cook like the pros -- Owner's syndrome and other medical anomalies -- Bigfoot -- I make my bones -- The happy time -- Chef of the future! -- Apocalypse now -- The wilderness years -- What I know about meat -- Pino noir : Tuscan interlude -- A day in the life -- Sous-chef -- The level of discourse -- Other bodies -- Adam real-last-name-unknown -- Department of human resources -- The life of Bryan -- Mission to Tokyo -- So you want to be a chef?: a commencement address -- Kitchen's closed.

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

2007280057

9780060899226

0060899220

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