Kitchen Confidential. A Cook's Tour

Kitchen Confidential. A Cook's Tour

Two-in-one volume of kitchen-based antics from the chef, novelist and all-round culinary bad boy.

After twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine , chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde 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. A Cook s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal Bourdain sets off to eat his way around the world. But this was never going to be a conventional culinary tour. He heads to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, and travels into Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia. He also dines with gangsters in Russia, finds a medieval pig slaughter and feast in Portugal, and returns to the fishing village where he first ate oysters as a child. Written with his inimitable machismo and humour, this is an adventure story sure to give you indigestion.

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Der französischstämmige Amerikaner Anthony Bourdain, geboren 1956 in New York, gelang mit seinem autobiografisch durchwirkten Buch Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs ein Welterfolg, seitdem legte er u.a. "Ein Küchenchef reist um die Welt" und "So koche ich" sowie mehrere Kriminalromane vor. Mit drei Jahren konnte er lesen, mit sechs hörte er Miles Davis, mit zwölf rauchte er seinen ersten Joint. Seit seinem 17. Lebensjahr arbeitet Bourdain in der Küche. Er studierte am College von Vassar und absolvierte seine Fachausbildung am Culinary Institute of America (CIA). Rund zehn Jahre lang führte er die Brasserie Les Halles in New York. Seine Fernsehserien A Cook s Tour und "Eine Frage des Geschmacks" fanden in vielen Ländern großen Anklang.