After twenty-five years of "sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine", chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all.
From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he first experiences the real delights of being a chef); through the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, to 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.
This unforgettable book will change the way you view restaurants for ever.
Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential
This is not your mother's cooking memoir. Iconoclastic celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain takes us on a highly entertaining tour of his chequered past, leaving in all the crazy, unseemly and sometimes unhygienic details (seriously, this book made me think twice about ever ordering seafood from a restaurant again) It's a wild ride, giving you a warts and all perspective into a world outsider's rarely get to experience. Not just for foodies but for anyone who appreciates a good story, well done!
Reviewed by 42bj
QBD, 30/10/2014
