Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) by Anthony Bourdain Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
Book Review: Highly recommended
Summary: 4 Stars
This book/Anthony is hilarious! i'm really enjoy reading his books, especially this 'kitchen confidential', the food business around him as well as the you-know-what dark side, a must read for food n travel lover.Book Review: A fantastic story of life in professional kitchens.
Summary: 5 Stars
Like so many people working in kitchens Bourdain came to it as a last resort, down and out. Through luck, coupled with occasional ambition and judgement he found a crazy world into which he fitted and could thrive.
This warts and all tale of his life in food has something for everyone. His passion for food from a first oyster in France to his restaurant Les Halles will please the foodies. The tales of mayhem in the kitchen will be familiar to anyone who has anything to do with professional chefs. The tales of drug use/casual theft and assorted other incidents just add colour and depth.
Most of all this is a book by someone who loves what he does and the bizarre subculture of the professional chef. I attended a reading by Bourdain in a provincial English city. He read a chapter "What do you know about me?" then paused and suryeved his applauding audience. He then pointed to a dozen people in the small crowd, one by one, and said "You're all chefs". And he was right. Every one of them.
Book Review: Mouthwatering - good enough to eat
Summary: 5 Stars
This a feast for the mind.
Before muppets like Ramsey and his ilk lumbered onto our screens Bourdain wrote this work of genius. He took a fairly boring subject food and crafted a funny, engaging, well written thrill ride. The subject is now a crowded marketplace, but this is unique.
Bourdain's passion carries you a long way , he clearly adores food in all its guises and forms. His bubbly, infectious style pulls you along with its easy charm. The writing reminds you of an old fashioned crime writer, gritty and razor sharp. It delves into the kitchen's pecking order, the micro politics behind closed doors. Its full of drama, funny anecdotes and low lifes with shattered dreams.
Compelling stuff good enough to eat...
Book Review: ANTHONY BOURDAIN Kitchen Confidential
Summary: 2 Stars
Perhaps the first celebrated 'real-life' chef memoir and certainly one that makes the man who just julienned your carrots sound like Sgt. Elias in 'Platoon'.
This is an entertaining read with great advice on knives, garlic, ordering fish and what the professionals think of vegans, though it is often pointlessly testosterone fuelled and banal. I don't know what it is about chefs that they see the world split into 'chefs' and 'civilians'. Maybe they are all frustrated NCOs. I can think of a TV chef who probably is. And what do they think's going to happen to them if their sea-bass is marinated in the wrong tone of voice? Maybe somebody's going to take them outside and shoot them? Maybe somebody should.