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| Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Anthony Bourdain
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  584 reviews
Sales Rank: 548
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:
 An Unseasoned Mess June 1, 2000
8 out of 21 found this review helpful
Don't quit your day job, Mr. Bourdain. While this book starts out promisingly, it quickly disintigrates into a sloppy mish-mash of memoir, back-stabbing, and bland cooking tips (use heavy pans! get a good knife!). Mostly, though, it's just the tale of a hack chef staring with deep love and fascination into his own dirty navel. Most of the reputed "tell-alls" of nasty habits in the restaurant biz were reported decades ago--with a lot more wit and style--by George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. If you want scandal, log on to the NYC Health Dept's restaurant reports. But unless you find Bourdain as fascinating as he finds himself,I'd skip this book.
 Must reading for any foodie June 1, 2000
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I absolutely loved reading this book and could not put it down. My only regret is that it wasn't longer. I hope that Tony's two novels come back into print as I would like to read those as well. I wish the book had a glossary for some of the terms, ingredients and dishes that are mentioned that I had never heard of before. I look forward to the sequel! (Please write one Tony...)
is it about his life.........or mine? June 1, 2000
hey fellow chefs, cooks and anyone else in this world of the RB. it's nice to know your not the only one who went through what we did to be what we are. "COOKS RULE"
Hilarious but true June 1, 2000
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book made me laugh out loud at the antics of the writer, but it'll make anybody cringe at the thought that what he said was based on experience and not a wild imagination. It spares nobody and makes eating at home a definite option if you are too picky with whats in your food. A truly enjoyable book good for a lazy sunday spent outdoors.
Bad Taste May 31, 2000
7 out of 20 found this review helpful
Don't believe the hype--Anthony Bourdain isn't saying anything that George Orwell didn't already say (with a lot more flair) in Down and Out in Paris and London. Mostly, it's hard to love (or even care about) the ups and downs of a narcissistic hack like Bourdain, whose writing is clearly geared towards shock value rather than style or substance. Kitchen Confidential is a undercooked mish-mash of personal history, kitchen tell-all, and home-cooking tips. Don't give up your day job, Mr. Bourdain.
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