Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts

Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now iconic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation and megabestseller. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.

Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade, laying out Bourdain’s more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine. Including a handwritten introduction and annotations done by Bourdain about a decade after the book was originally published, this edition also features previously unpublished photos to accompany the now-classic text. 

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 28, 2024
Edition ‏ : ‎ Annotated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0063376504
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0063376502
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #9,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in TV References #5 in Reference & Collections of Biographies #9 in Theatre Biographies
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