Kitchen Confidential (Bourdain) - Book Reviews

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The guy is hysterical…in a style partaking of Hunter S. Thompson, Iggy Pop and a little Jonathan Swift, Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors.
New York Times Book Review


Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory.
USA Today


You’ll laugh, you’ll cry...you’re gonna love it.
Denver Post


A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique.
Newsweek


Bourdain’s prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois.
New York magazine


Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. His fast-lane personality and glee in recounting sophomoric kitchen pranks might be unbearable were it not for two things: Bourdain is as unsparingly acerbic with himself as he is with others, and he exhibits a sincere and profound love of good food.... Bourdain has a tender side...[that] elevates this book to something more than blustery memoir.
Publishers Weekly