christa's review
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition)
by Anthony Bourdain
christa's review
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition) by Anthony Bourdain
christa's review
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in your life, you belong to a little subset of people based upon your job, your college, or a shared hobby or experience. maybe you belong to more than one. occasionally, when you get together with the people from your niche, an outsider is thrown into the mix and everyone spends the whole night telling stories about the "good old days" and how reckless and badass and drunk everyone was. and for the outsider, sometimes its funny. then as things ramp up more, it gets less funny. pretty soon you're yawning and you hate everyone in the entire world and would rather slit your own throat with shards from a wine bottle than hear another story about this guy who did this thing ...
that, in a nutshell, is kitchen confidential. when anthony bourdain writes in the introduction that he wrote this for other chefs and was surprised that it got so much outsider attention, i think that was genuine.
the first third of the book is a collection of funny and interesting stories about ma...more
that, in a nutshell, is kitchen confidential. when anthony bourdain writes in the introduction that he wrote this for other chefs and was surprised that it got so much outsider attention, i think that was genuine.
the first third of the book is a collection of funny and interesting stories about ma...more
