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Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Jan 10, 2016GlenAbbeyWarrior rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I've enjoyed watching Anthony Bourdain on his CNN show Parts Unknown, so my wife (who is a chef by trade) told me that I'd probably like reading Kitchen Confidential - the book that put him on the culinary map. Written in 2000, Bourdain describes in great detail the seedy underbelly of what life in a kitchen is really like. Drugs, alcoholism, kickbacks - basically if you're the head chef, its like being the captain of a pirate ship. And through his tales, I learned quite a lot from a customer's perspective such as never going to a restaurant on a Monday or ordering a steak well-done. Although I assume much has changed in the 15+ years since Kitchen Confidential was written, I also suspect that a lot of it has remained the same. A really good page-turner for serious foodies and people like me who only have a very casual interest in the subject.