Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | Anthony Bourdain | Maybe I don't want to go out to dinner tionight!

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	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Anthony Bourdain Bloomsbury USA, 2000 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 580 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Tells it Like it Is

Food service is difficult work. You're on you feet in continual motion for hours. Your brain is constantly assembling, re-assembling and deleting detailed orders. It's HOT in the kitchen. Can you trust some of the people carrying knives? Your days off, or shall we say your hours off, are opposite to any friend or relative outside the business. Evenings, weekends and holidays are spent with your kitchen staff family. Given the working conditions and the low wages, there are lots of personal problems in this kitchen family of yours.

Tony didn't mention the mixed food and grease smell in your hair and fingernails you seem to acquire by quitting time.

The Food Channel makes it look so effortless. The Food Channel makes it look wholesome. As they plate up the food, be it in the studio kitchen, the time pressured Kitchen Stadium or on the road, there's a lot you don't see. You don't see how the food gets there or how the dishes are washed. Who fills those ramiken dishes? You never see the crew behind the successful chefs be they in your local X star restaurant or on TV.

I spent 7 years in the restaurant business and from that experience, Tony is spot on! Not is he just right on the staff, the owners and managers I met/worked with, all outside of NYC, fit within the molds he presents.

The book is not only funny and fun, but also gives good advice to anyone interested in working in food service in any capacity.

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Maybe I don't want to go out to dinner tionight!

I loved this book. I am a fan of his show so the words in this book came out sounding a lot like Anthony's voice. Great stories, great restaurant insight. I thought I wanted my son to go to culinary school and be a chef, but now I think I have changed my mind! This book is totally entertaining, especially if you are a foodie.

Foodies Beware!

I was a frequent viewer of Mr. Bourdain's program "No Reservations" on the Travel Channel so I purchased this book already knowing and loving his style as an edgy chef/traveler.

This book did not dissapoint. Bourdain reveals some of his history as a "low-life" (he would not object!) struggling to make it in the food industry. He discusses his early life as a child and later cutting his teeth in the world of food. Much of the book is Tony passing along some hilarious, and some shocking, stories of the restaurant biz during his time in the kitchen.

I recommend this book for anyone with at least a marginal love of cooking or eating. Basically everyone!

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Kitchen confidential

Great book lots of good info. I don't go to buffets and now I know I never will. It's just like sitting across from that sexy man and just listening to his stories. It's great.

Tasty Read

Kitchen Confidential is a series of semi-chronological biographical essays(pre-Food Network) that begins as an exposé of the restaurant industry and end as an ode to the characters chef Anthony Bourdain met along the way to his dream job.

Bourdain writes with the voice of a no-nonsense cowboy proud of his exploits - the constant references to drugs, criminal activity, and the bad language may be too much for some. Despite the moral ambivalence, we meet some truly interesting characters (including Bourdain himself) and may learn something about cooking/food generally and the restaurant industry from Kitchen Confidential. Despite the 300 pages, Bourdain's conversational style makes this book a fast read.

Recommended for readers with strong stomachs looking for a rambunctious memoir of a chef and a few laughs.

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