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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Written with the wit and charm of a natural storyteller, Kitchen Confidential is a delectable memoir about Anthony Bourdain’s time in the culinary industry. This is a man who was as capable a writer as he was a chef.

An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition

Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat before You Read This,” by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensatio...

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