Bourdain’s Restaurant Classic Still Crackles With Appetite
Anthony Bourdain’s kitchen memoir still feels alive because it mixes appetite, craft and bad behaviour with such candour. The anniversary edition is a reminder that the book’s charm lies in its unsentimental affection for restaurant work and the people doing it.
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Bourdain’s Restaurant Classic Still Crackles With Appetite
Anthony Bourdain’s kitchen memoir still feels alive because it mixes appetite, craft and bad behaviour with such candour. The anniversary edition is a reminder that the book’s charm lies in its unsentimental affection for restaurant work and the people doing it.
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The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations: 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh.
BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR, THERE WAS BOURDAIN.
'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino' A.A. Gill 'Fantastic: as lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli' Daily Telegraph
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 as a child, 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.
Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter and leave you wanting more.
'Compelling … 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
Ideal for readers who:
- Devour gritty food writing that exposes the intense heat, fragile egos and daily grind of professional kitchens.
- Step directly into Anthony Bourdain’s culinary world, full of raw appetite, excess and unforgettable stories.
- Are fascinated by authentic chef culture before glossy, modern culinary confessionals took over the mainstream.
- Value sharp, beautifully profane memoirs delivered with immense swagger, wit and striking detail.
- About The Author
- Anthony Bourdain was the New York Times-bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, A Cook's Tour, Typhoid Mary and The Nasty Bits, the cookbooks Appetites and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. He also co-authored the graphic novel Get Jiro! with Joel Rose. His writing appeared in the New York Times and New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations, Parts Unknown, A Cook's Tour and The Layover. Bourdain died in June 2018.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781526692528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, (19 June 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 432
- Weight
- 284 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 128 x 32 mm
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