Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
by Anthony Bourdain
Recommended by Éric Ripert and Jon Favreau
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Reading is like eavesdropping on a profanity-laced confessional from a seasoned chef: fast, bracing, and full of vivid set-piece scenes about kitchens, drugs, sex, and the small cruelties of restaurant life. Most useful are the tactical portraits of how restaurants run, the hierarchy and rhythms that make service work, rendered with blunt wit. Limiting: voice can feel self-indulgent and macho; anecdotes repeat similar beats, so novelty wears thin by the back half. Best read in chunks or as a binge for maximum momentum.
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A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wildbuttrue tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quartercentury of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine?now with allnew, neverbeforepublished material.New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring m...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Autobiographies, Biographies, and Food.
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