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Kitchen Confidential
fidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain · 2007 · 352 pages
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material
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Éric Ripert
“Kitchen Confidential was the first book I ever read in English. I love that Tony’s world in the kitchen was filled with pirate-like renegades when mine was peopled with regimented professionals. How eye-opening and entertaining to read about the other side!”↗
Jon Favreau
“Great book.”↗
Julia Child
“Bourdain is wild—his book is about what goes on in restaurant kitchens and it’s very entertaining. I think it should be called ‘How to Live Through a Nightmare.’ I don’t know if everything he says is true or not; in many ways I hope it’s not, because it would be horrible to work in some of the places he describes!”↗
René Redzepi
“You could argue that this book was the real moment of ‘the chef’ as we know it today. I think before this came out, chefs were simply cooks hidden in the basement. This book sparked a new appetite for understanding how, and by whom, our food is prepared. This book (along with Marco Pierre’s White Heat) is one of the two books that propelled professional cooking into the pop culture phenomenon that it is today.”↗