Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bourdain, Anthony
Published: Harper Perennial,
Publisher Address: [New York] :
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Updated edition
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Summary: 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.
Item Description: "An Ecco Book"
"First [edition] published in 2000 by Bloomsbury USA." -- Verso.
Additional paging [22 pages] following text consists of "P.S. insights, interviews & more..." with information about Bourdain; an interview with him, and an article from The London Observer recommending eateries in New York.
Carrier Form: xviii, 312, 22 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780060899226
0060899220
Index Number: TX649
CLC: K837.128.9
Call Number: K837.128.9/B768-2/ Updated ed.
Contents: Appetizer. A note from the chef. First course. Food is good ; Food is sex ; Food is pain ; Inside the CIA ; The return of the mal carne -- Second course. Who cooks? ; From our kitchen to your table ; How to cook like the pros ; Owner's syndrome and other medical anomalies ; Bigfoot -- Third Course. I make my bones ; The happy time ; Chef of the future! ; Apocalypse now ; The wilderness years ; What I know about meat ; Pino noir : Tuscan interlude -- Dessert. A day in the life ; Sous-chef ; The level of discourse ; Other bodies ; Adam real-last-name-unknown ; Department of human resources --