Kitchen Confidential

Posted on 24 August 2017 by Anthony Bourdain

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild but true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his than a quarter century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine now with all new, never before published material.New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir expose Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls twenty five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine. New Read [ Kitchen Confidential ] By [ Anthony Bourdain ] – kino-fada.fr My first exposure to Anthony Bourdain, via his show No Reservations, left me with with the sense of a true asshole who sneered down his nose with aging punk rock disdain at people and things he deemed beneath him, and, honestly, it seemed like most people and things were beneath him For some reason, even though he crossed my Southern sensibilities and turned me off to him on that first exposure, I kept watching the show and realized that there is a lotto him than that first impression sug My first exposure to Anthony Bourdain, via his show No Reservations, left me with with the sense of a true asshole who sneered down his nose with aging punk rock disdain at people and things he deemed beneath him, and, honestly, it seemed like most people and things were beneath him For some reason, even though he crossed my Southern sensibilities and turned me off to him on that first exposure, I kept watching the show and realized that there is a lotto him than that first impression suggested No Reservations is now my favorite show and when I saw a copy of Kitchen Confidential for sale in the book store, I snapped it up and began reading it that night I unfortunately wasn t able to keep his voice in my head his delivery is a large part of the draw of his show for me but the series of stories from his past that he lays out are captivating even when heard inside my skull as coming from the disembod...I love food and I love hot sexy chefs with potty mouths.I remember first discovering Anthony Bourdain on the Food Network many years ago It was 3am and I was unable to sleep and here was this brooding, hot piece of ass chain smoking and touring Russia I never remembered his name but he haunted my dreams until I re discovered him years later on the Travel ...Maybe 3.5 stars, sometimes 4 It has lots of interesting anecdotes, but it was somewhat repetitive at parts While interesting for the non culinary inclined, I think it would be better received by someone with a kitchen background or a person who has worked in food and beverage.Some parts of this book talk about fantastic food and will leave you drooling As a result, you will want to hop the next flight and travel the world visiting as many restaurants and trying as many types of food as you ca Maybe 3.5 stars, sometimes 4 It has lots of interesting anecdotes, but it was somewhat repetitive at parts While interesting for the non culinary inclined, I think it would be better received by someone with a kitchen background or a person who has worked in food and beverage.Some parts of this book talk about fantastic food and will leave you drooling As a result, you will want to hop the next flight and travel the world visiting as many restaurants and trying as man...If you are like me and love food, watching Top Chef and Food Channel, think that cooking is art, an outlet for creativity, consider chefs featured on such shows including Anthony Bourdain as super sophisticated artists, you are up for a surprise with this book Bourdain definitely crushes all preconceived notions we might have about the industry You remember those foul mouthed, unkempt, ever fired and hired kitchen workers with shifty pasts you ve come across at some points in your life I th If you are like me and love food, watching Top Chef and Food Channel, think that cooking is art, an outlet for creativity, consider chefs featured on such shows including Anthony Bourdain as super sophisticated artists, you are up for a surprise with this book Bourdain definitely crushes all preconceived notions we might have about the industry You remember those foul mouthed, unkempt, ever fired and hired kitchen workers with shifty pasts you ve come across at some points in your ...Halfway through this book I remembered I don t have the slightest bit of interest in the culinary arts whatsoever Luckily, I was listening to it on audiotape Unluckily, cassette 4 broke and I had to read the rest with my eyes I m not sure why I picked this up, I guess because I heard Bourdain was the punk rock chef, but besides listening to the Sex Pistols and Velvet Underground while he cooked, there s not a whole lot else going on of a punk rock nature He was a drug addict, but the book Halfway through this book I remembered I don t have the slightest bit of interest in the culinary arts whatsoever Luckily, I was listening to it on audiotape Unluckily, cassette 4 broke and I had to read the rest with my eyes I m not sure why I picked this up, I guess because I heard Bourdain was the punk rock chef, but besides listening to the Sex Pistols and Velvet Underground while he cooked, there s not a whole lot else going on of a punk rock nature He was a drug addict, but the book kind of skips right over that, which would have been interesting I d rather it had beenof a total autobiography than just a chronicle of his history of the restaurant biz, but once again, it s my fault because that s clearly what the book is labeled as I wanted dirty stories from the seedy underbelly of the high class dining world, but it didn t really get much wilder than a bunch of cooks making racist, sexist, homophobic jokes Dude, that s not exclusive to...What follows is my summary of this book Blah, blah, blah I m an asshole blah, blah, blah yay, drugs blah, blah, fuck everyone, pork chop, fuck you all, mince, veal, drugs, blood, blah, blah, blah.Maybe you can tell, I am less than impressed What I ultimately took away from this is that Bourdain would not like me I m a vegetarian, for one and I would not like him I don t feel too bad writing this review, because Bourdain certainly never minces his words culinary pun intended I was expec What follows is my summary of this book Blah, blah, blah I m an asshole blah, blah, blah yay, drugs blah, blah, fuck everyone, pork chop, fuck you all, mince, veal, drugs, blood, blah, blah,...Good food is very often, even most often, simple foodAnthony Bourdain, Kitchen ConfidentialThere is a certain thrill to being the first person to reach the top of a mountain, the first to eat at a soon to be famous restaurant, the first to discover an author, a band, a new food or experience Well friend, the thrill of a late discovery even when you are 15 years late to the party is still pretty damn sweet I might have seen Bourdain s books as I wandered through a bookstore I might haveGood food is very often, even most often, simple foodAnthony Bourdain, Kitchen ConfidentialThere is a certain thrill to being the first person to reach the top of a mountain, the first to eat at a soon to be...The book s author is clearly impressed with having passed through the esteemed halls of Vassar College, yet prouder still of his hard knocks and rough and tumble street degree earned working for a slew of restaurants Much of the book is spent describing the working stiffs in the culinary field and their wildly anti social and anti establishment behavior and greedy incompetent restaurant owners The anecdotes were mildly amusing for the first hundred pages but tiresome by the end If you re stuc The book s author is clearly impressed with ha...Advanced warning I tend to take on the vernacular of whomever I m reading, so now might be a good time to mention that Anthony Bourdain has a very colorful er style So, I ve finished reading Anthony Bourdain s book Kitchen Confidential, which is basically about all the craziness that goes on behind the scenes in the restaurant world As I started reading the book, I thought I d be of one of two minds by the end either I d never want to eat out again, or I d want ...Oh, Anthony Bourdain How I love you I have no idea why it took me so long to read his very first memoir Amazing, hilarious, witty, educational, enlightening, entertaining, intriguing, original, honest This should be mandatory reading for every first year CIA student For anyone unfamiliar with this use, that is The Culinary Institutes Of America, Bourdain s Alma Mater, not The Central Intelligence Agency Of course, Fortunately Unfortunately , although I was not in the industry long en Oh, Anthony Bourdain How I love you I have no idea why it took me so long to read his very first memoir Amazing, hilarious, witty, educational, enlightening, entertaining, intriguing, original, honest This should be mandatory reading for every first year CIA student For anyone unfamiliar with...

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24 August 2017

Anthony Bourdain