Kitchen Confidential
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After twenty-five years of ’sex, drugs, terrible behaviour and haute cuisine’, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has chose to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he first experiences the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain’s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are amusing. This unforgettable book will change the way you view restaurants for ever.Amazon.com Review
Most diners judge that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was made by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of “wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths,” in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence lacking an expletive or a foreign axiom. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who’s been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller–a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Persons lacking the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: “There will be horror tales. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn’t order fish on a Monday, why persons who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection…. But I’m simply not going to deceive anyone about the life as I’ve seen it.” –Sumi Hahn
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I studied with Madelaine Kamman in Newton Centre, Ma. who had the only fantastic restruant at that time, she and Enzo Danesi changed the way Boston wanted to eat when dining out, in the 70’s, you could wait 3 months to get a reservation in her sparkling, clean,restruant. I marveled at her ability to give the customer very excellent food, no leftovers and most of it fresh that day. Pates’,some desserts, normally carried to next day, like a cake or frozen sorbet. I was there over a period of three years and know how fantastic a chef she was and is. Sally LaRhette
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I WANTED to like this book. It was our book club selection… I was hosting the book club meeting…and I permanently read the monthly books. Somehow, this book place me in a terrible mood, especially during the holidays, and its foul language and distasteful tales didn’t fit with my family tree, holiday spirit. As a replacement for, I stuck with “Excellent in Bed”, “Clara”, and “Master of the Senate”.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
A star wants to be born, amidst the puddles of animal stout, screams and blood. A star who finds sensual pleasure in frying animal stout and who openly despises vegetarians, compassion and anyone who’s not as twisted as he is. An individual who longs for the exquisite taste of monkey brains (were the monkey’s craneum top is removed while still alive, to die only with the trust of the metal spoon). This person embodies the worst of the qualities that have made the French so legendary: a decadent sensory obsession and experimentation where anything and everything goes (and has), coupled with the arrogance and disdain of a people who long for appreciation they’ve never gotten. My veredict: This book is just another brick of the wall that separates France from civilization.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Rairly have I read a book that I despise. This is it! Not only is it not amusing but it is insulting to anyone who would sit in his dining room. Tony’s fan base just lost one.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’d rate this as 0 if it were an option. Bourdain seems to be trying to live up to some kind of weird ideal, but he comes across as self-centered and self-absorbed. Not worth the read.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5