Lou Plummer reviewed Kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Review of 'Kitchen confidential' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Kind of sad because of the subsequent death of the author.
307 pages
English language
Published Jan. 18, 2000 by Bloomsbury.
4 stars
(23 reviews)
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain, first published in 2000. In 2018, following Bourdain's death, it topped the New York Times non-fiction paperback and non-fiction combined e-book and print lists.In 1999, Bourdain's essay "Don't Eat Before Reading This" was published in The New Yorker. The essay, an unsolicited submission to the magazine, launched Bourdain's media career and served as the foundation for Kitchen Confidential. Released in 2000 to wide acclaim, the book is both a professional memoir and an unfiltered look at the less glamorous aspects of high-end restaurant kitchens, which he describes as unremittingly intense, unpleasant, hazardous, and staffed by misfits. Bourdain believes that the kitchen is no place for dilettantes or slackers and that only those with a masochistic dedication to cooking will remain undeterred.
Subjects
- Bourdain, Anthony
- Cooks -- United States -- Biography