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| Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  584 reviews
Sales Rank: 583
Media: Paperback
Edition: Updated
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060899220
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
EAN: 9780060899226
ASIN: 0060899220
Publication Date: January 9, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
Kitchen in the raw... February 18, 2008
Bourdain's book claims to be the inside scoop on what a restaurant kitchen is really like. He does, at the end, give a caveat that some new restaurants don't run the way he did/does. The book is a good read,if a bit raw in the language.
 Kitchen Confidential February 17, 2008
If you love Anthony Bourdain, you'll love this book! It's like he's reading the book to you.
Great read!! February 8, 2008
Anthony, a.k.a. Tony, is a great writer, at times I feel like I am there in the kitchen with him. His sense of humor is off the charts and I truely have taken in some of his suggestions.
If you want and eye opening, fast paced read this is the book for you.
This thing of ours February 3, 2008
In another of Bourdain's books, The Nasty Bits, he includes an article about books about the kitchen lifestyle that he turns to in the toughest times. When you've worked a gruelling a double, body exhausted from the day and the night before when you actually had a night off and spent it more than likely overdrinking and drugging, and now you have to deal with the owner and his half realized "vision of culinary exquisiteness." It's these little things that anybody who has ever worked in a restaurant back or front of the house can relate to. Among these he lists several including Down and Out in London and Paris and Flash in the Pan. Go ahead and add this masterpiece and the other book I mentioned, Nasty Bits, to this list. This is what Bourdain truly excels at when writing. True, he is also good with traditional food criticism, he is interested and therefore writes more interestingly about the overall lifestyle of a restaurant lifer.
A great read!! January 24, 2008
Reading this has definitely made me think differently of chefs and kitchens, but in a good way! I'm more inclined to try something "unusual" at an unknown restaurant than settling for the usual chain restaurant after reading this book. Plus the cooking tips definitely help!
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