Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
 

Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

by Anthony Bourdain

Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the... (read more)

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Nancy O
  • Rated 5 stars

I thought this book was great. I think Anthony Bourdain is a pretty talented writer, considering he's not a writer by trade. He writes very much the way he speaks, if you've ever watched No Reservations on the Travel Channel. So very conversational in style. He's had quite the ride during his culinary career and I found this book very entertaining!

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Tanya
  • Rated 1 stars

I was really disappointed in this book. I think his tv show is great, but his writing is a snore. I stopped short of fully reading the book and traded it away on bookmooch. Don't waste your time on this one.

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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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  • kalkiwendy

    kalkiwendy said:

    I KNOW HE'S NOT GAY!!! Goofball! Sheesh.

    posted Friday, August 3 2007
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