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Loading... Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000)by Anthony Bourdain
  
No current Talk conversations about this book. This was an eye opening look at the restaurant industry when Anthony Bourdain was coming up as a young chef. As everyone knows Bourdain recently took his life. He was a mad genius and his own worst enemy who never said no to a drink, food, or drugs. He was also a life long struggling addict with mental health issues. It's a shame he never received the help he needed. The world lost another funny talented artist to suicide. The book is an unflinching look at the industry he loved as well as himself. My favorite part of the book was when he was interviewing for a job and the owner of the restaurant asked him what do you know about me. Not sure how to answer the question he said absolutely nothing. It was only when he got home that he realized what he had actually been asked was what do you know about meat? Needless to say he didn't get the job. The book is full of funny moments like that. As a passionate supporter of mental health I urge everyone to seek help when they need it. The world lost another shinning star to something that was completely preventable. (  ) arielfl | Oct 9, 2018 |  This is the third or fourth chef memoir that I have read. There is a certain sameness to their stories. This one was interesting, but it's probably my last. (  ) fhudnell | Sep 10, 2018 | Brilliant on HR. (  ) Mithril | Aug 20, 2018 | Excerpts from my original GR review (Mar 2010): - Now THIS is fun! If you've ever been curious about what it's like behind the scenes in the "boiler room" of a higher-brow kitchen, this is the book for you. I can't imagine Bourdain left much unsaid here. If he did, then I don't wanna know... - And I ask myself again: Why would I have ever entertained the idea of going into the food world? My eight months or so as a pizza cook in college will forever be the extent of my restaurant resume'. [You'll be fondly remembered by very many, Anthony] ( ) ThoughtPolice | Aug 3, 2018 | Kitchen Confidential describes with detail and humor what it was like to work in a kitchen in the 70s, 80s and 90s - back breaking work and long hours, bad language and behavior in a mostly men's world, immigrants learning the trade from the bottom up and how easy it was to score drugs. Bourdain attended the Culinary Institute of America, one of the best cooking schools in the country, but did not follow the path that he advises future cooks to take. Rather than pay his dues and go to work for the finest kitchens to learn the trade, Bourdain chose to work in mediocre and some very bad kitchens and learn through trial and error. At the writing of Kitchen Confidential in 2000, Bourdain has kicked his drug habit and is a chef at Brasserie Les Halles, a well respected bistro style restaurant in New York City. ( ) KatherineGregg | Jul 24, 2018 |
 This is one bitter, nasty, searing, hard-to-swallow piece of work. But if you can choke the thing down, youll (sic) probably wake up grinning in the middle of the night. Bourdain is a force of unruly nature, a lifelong misanthrope and currently the executive chef at the Brasserie Les Halles, whose clientele, now that this book is out, must be accounted among the more courageous diners in New York.
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