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“Kitchen Confidential” Anthony Bourdain (2000) Review | Love of cooking


Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain, 2000
576 pages
Read in 2024.09
check synopsis and details on amazon.com


✔ Autobiography by a popular chef
✔ His life and relationship with food and cooking
✔ Funny and heart warming


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★★  It's a biography but not about him, it's about the love of food, love of cooking, of his colleagues and kitchen. It's really how he was, foul mouth, brutally honest, caring guy. A classic.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
Yes, no wonder this is considered a classic.

It's a biography but it's not about him, it's about the love of food, love of cooking, of his colleagues and kitchen, and as he says, it's universal.

Kitchen is a heated place, I have worked briefly at a small restaurant so I had a tiny preview of the kitchen life.
It's a difficult job and it's all about working as a team, not a team, a military.
What your chef says is absolute, you only say "yes chef".

Bourdain was such a loved character from TV shows, and it's nice to read that it's really how he was, foul mouth, brutally honest, caring guy.

Funny he mentions Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, that I recently ready.
And this books is only second to that classic.
🔽 Where to buy 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)


●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Kitchen Confidential (Italiano)