Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly

Bourdain, Anthony, author.

Updated edition, First Harper Perennial edition.

Book

New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2007.

©2007

xviii, 312, 22 pages ; 21 cm

"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"--Page 4 of cover.

Bourdain, Anthony.

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

Autobiographies.

Appentizer. A note from the chef -- First course. Food is good ; Food is sex ; Food is pain ; Inside the CIA ; The return of the mal carne -- Second course. Who cooks? ; From our kitchen to your table ; How to cook like the pros ; Owner's syndrome and other medical anomalies ; Bigfoot -- Third course. 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 -- Dessert. A day in the life ; Sous-chef ; The level of discourse ; Other bodies ; Adam real-last-name-unknown ; Department of human resources -- Coffee and a cigarette. The life of Bryan ; Mission to Tokyo ; So you want to be a chef? A commencement address ; Kitchen's closed.

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