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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

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Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

Narrator Anthony Bourdain

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Length 8 hours 18 minutes

Language English

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“If you want the raw, uncut version of Anthony Bourdain’s cooking life look no further! Kitchen Confidential documents the nitty gritty of the back of house - and how truly at home many cooks feel while sweating and yelling their way through 60+ hour workweeks. Anthony Bourdain is frank with his recount of his rise and fall throughout the ranks as a chef and I truly loved every minute of it. ”
— Makayla • Tattered Cover

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“Bourdain begrudgingly offers, among other things, a cracked and battered pair of rose-colored glasses through which to view the world.”
— Ellie • Page 1 Books

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#6 in Bestselling Travel Audiobooks

When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.

From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Bourdain's brilliantly written and wonderfully read, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter.

Biography & Memoir Cooking Travel Essays Nonfiction

Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.