Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition
Dec 2008 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
4.3star
1.47K reviews
Ebook
320
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About this ebook
Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential.
Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdain's first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnesses for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the east village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable.
Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You'll beg the chef for more, please.
Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdain's first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnesses for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the east village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable.
Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You'll beg the chef for more, please.
Ratings and reviews
4.3
1.47K reviews
Bruce Somich
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August 5, 2025
I've always been a Anthony Bourdain fan. Ever since No Reservations aired on the Travel Channel. I Feel like I understand him better now. I have humanized him more. Having read this book I realized that we probably wouldn't be close friends if we had ever met. But we definitely would be able to travel a little together, and share meals together. I was able to see similarities between us as people. And it forced me to be honest about the differences. In the end I have to say that I enjoyed this book immensely. And I miss him even more now
NIC GONZALEZ
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October 19, 2025
I read it again, reflecting on my time working in a Cajun restaurant during high school, where we made everything from scratch, including sauces and stocks. The food industry has changed since then. I firmly believe every young adult should learn to cook. The late Bourdain had a unique ability to capture the genuine, unfiltered reality of kitchen life, honoring its complexities without romanticizing it.
A Google user
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March 15, 2012
The book itself was really good, until about halfway through it when the Google Play Books reader app for Android refused to read it without crashing, with no response from Google. It'll cost me 8 bucks to finish it. Amazon isn't renowned for their customer service, but it's miles better than Google's. I recommend buying this book from the Kindle store.
About the author
Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary; and the cookbooks Appetites and Les Halles Cookbook.
Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy Award–winning No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC.
Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy Award–winning No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC.
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