Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly By Anthony Bourdain Genre: Memoir / Food Writing / Biography Publication Year: 2000 My Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) Spoiler Preference: Spoiler-Free Behind the Kitchen Door, and Beyond It Some memoirs tell us what happened. The best memoirs tell us how a world works. When I first picked up Kitchen Confidential , I expected an insider's account of restaurant life. What I found instead was a raw, funny, profane, surprisingly intelligent exploration of ambition, addiction, craftsmanship, class, and the peculiar communities that form in high-pressure workplaces. Anthony Bourdain promised to reveal what happens behind the swinging doors of professional kitchens, and he certainly delivers. Yet the lasting power of this book comes from something deeper than its famous culinary revelations. Bourdain writes with the confidence of a man who has survived his mistakes and retained enough self-awareness to laugh at them. He...