Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used: Good
- ISBN 10
- 158234082X
- ISBN 13
- 9781582340821
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors. Published in 2000 by Bloomsbury, Kitchen Confidential was Bourdain’s memoir and behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens, a follow-up to his popular and shocking article published the April 19th 1999 edition of The New Yorker titled "Don't Eat Before Reading This." The book is both a personal confessional, including stories of Bourdain’s misdeeds and weaknesses, including his drug use, and an industry commentary, divulging money-saving secrets of restaurants and things for consumers to avoid. Bourdain called the book "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Anthony Bourdain is the author of multiple books about cooking and food including the follow-up to Kitchen Confidential -
Read More: Identifying first editions of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Ergodebooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SONG158234082X
- Title
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- Author
- Anthony Bourdain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used: Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 158234082X
- ISBN 13
- 9781582340821
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2000-05-22
Terms of Sale
Ergodebooks
We have 30 day return policy.
About the Seller
Ergodebooks
About Ergodebooks
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...