Kitchen Confidential

by Bourdain, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781582340821
• ISBN10: 158234082X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer,The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdain's first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnesses for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop 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.Kitchen Confidentialwill make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You'll beg the chef for more, please.

Author Biography

Anthony Bourdain is the author of Bone in the Throat. This is his first work of non-fiction. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
APPETIZER
A Note from the Chef	3	(6)
FIRST COURSE
Food Is Good	9	(10)
Food Is Sex	19	(6)
Food Is Pain	25	(11)
Inside the CIA	36	(9)
The Return of Mal Carne	45	(10)
SECOND COURSE
Who Cooks?	55	(9)
From Our Kitchen to Your Table	64	(11)
How to Cook Like the Pros	75	(9)
Owner's Syndrome and Other Medical Anomalies	84	(7)
Bigfoot	91	(14)
THIRD COURSE
I Make My Bones	105	(15)
The Happy Time	120	(8)
Chef of the Future!	128	(6)
Apocalypse Now	134	(10)
The Wilderness Years	144	(9)
What I Know About Meat	153	(9)
Pino Noir: Tuscan Interlude	162	(19)
DESSERT
A Day in the Life	181	(23)
Sous-Chef	204	(15)
The Level of Discourse	219	(8)
Other Bodies	227	(6)
Adam Real-Last-Name-Unknown	233	(10)
Department of Human Resources	243	(8)
COFFEE AND A CIGARETTE
The Life of Bryan	251	(16)
Mission to Tokyo	267	(28)
So You Want to Be a Chef?
A Commencement Address	288	(7)
Kitchen's Closed	295