Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential

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Produktbeschreibung

THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER: 'The greatest book about food ever written''A compelling book 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_____________________________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 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.

Produktdetails

• Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 242161
• Rev. ed.
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781408845042
• ISBN-10: 1408845040
• Artikelnr.: 38260582

Autorenporträt

Anthony Bourdain was the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and the author of the novels: Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories and Gone Bamboo. His work appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Food Arts magazine. He was the host of the international CNN television series Parts Unknown.

Rezensionen

'A compelling book with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois ... more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel' Sunday Times

"Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois." - New York magazine

"You'll laugh, you'll cry...you're gonna love it." - Denver Post

"The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages." - USA Today

Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory. - USA Today

"A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique." - Newsweek

"Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois." - New York magazine

"Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors." - New York Times Book Review

'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino'