Kitchen Confidential
Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
The book that made Bourdain famous: a profane, exhilarating dispatch from behind the kitchen door, telling you what really goes on before your meal arrives.
The book that turned a working New York chef into a household name. Bourdain pulls back the kitchen door and tells you everything the industry would rather you not know: the drugs, the bravado, the brutal hours, why you should not order fish on a Monday, and the strange loyalty of the people who choose this life. Written in a voice nobody had heard in food writing before, profane, exhilarating and honest, it remade the genre and launched a second career.
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