Kitchen confidential

What it’s about: You know him from Top Chef, No Reservations, and ABC’s under-the-radar but completely compelling new show The Taste, but Anthony Bourdain is more than just a blowhard with a penchant for being kind of a dick. The first half of this is your standard narrative of how he came to love and appreciate food, but the best part about this is the second half, full of juicy, insider-y secrets about cooking as a profession.Best enjoyed with: seafood from your favorite restaurant, but…

Chef Eric Ripert's autographed copy of Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential with Bourdain's notes on the importance of being on time and his sigunature chef's knife sign-off.

Anthony Bourdain is the kind of chef/TV show personality who will show you the Montana hotel room where a former director went on a coke and shooting binge, and then go downstairs to tell you about the buffalo meat something he's eating. Then other nights he ends up in the

Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition : Bourdain, Anthony: Amazon.ca: Books

Annotated notes by Tony Bourdain for Eric Ripert's copy of Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential

He began his career as a chef and ended his life an icon.

Fair warning: I've read this, and it's pretty intense. From the publisher: "Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."

From Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, \"Don't Eat before You Read This,\" by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential , became an even bigger…

Like the rest of the world, I was shocked to hear the news about Anthony Bourdain this morning. He first came into my life in the 90s when Andy’s urbane...