Kitchen Confidential

The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations 25th Anniversary edition with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR THERE WAS BOURDAIN Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino A A Gill Fantastic as lip smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli Daily Telegraph After twenty five years of sex drugs bad behaviour and haute cuisine chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all and he meant all From his first oyster in the Gironde as a child to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again Bourdain s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable as shocking as they are funny Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter and leave you wanting more Compelling with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel Sunday Times Extraordinary written with a clarity and a clear eyed wit to put the professional food writing fraternity to shame Observer