Medium Raw

A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

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Anthony Bourdain: Medium Raw (2010, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

English language

Published Sept. 23, 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

ISBN:
978-1-4088-0917-4
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4 stars (1 review)

3 editions

Review of 'Medium Raw' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

People have made lots of comparisons between Bourdain and Hunter S Thompson, but there’s no truer comparison between Medium Raw and HST’s later work. Collections of sometimes disjoint invective that have peaks and troughs but mostly hit the mark very satisfyingly. Poignant moments abound but the real highlights might be the almost saccharine moments of concentrated hatred for individuals, and the class commentary and lyrical ballet of My Aim is True.

(He still didn’t have a good moral argument against most vegetarianism after all that time though)

Subjects

  • Cooks, biography
  • New york (n.y.), biography
  • Cooking
  • Gastronomy