Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060899220 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material.
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