Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly [Hardcover]

ANEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING PHENOMENON

Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo. -New Yorkmagazine

Globally beloved chef Anthony Bourdain's bestselling breakout book-an addictively funny, unsparing tell-all about the restaurant business by the Emmy Award-winning host ofParts UnknownandNo Reservations.

In the now-classic memoir that launched Anthony Bourdain's long career, the globally beloved chef took us through the swinging kitchen doors and turned the culinary trade on its head. The result was a deliciously funny, shocking banquet of wild tales that drew from twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine.

Sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike, Bourdain recounts everything from his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he became hooked on chef work for life); from the stovetops of the Rainbow Room atop 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, andKitchen Confidentialwill make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter, and leave you wanting more.

Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote theNew York Timesbestselling memoirsKitchen Confidential,Medium Raw, andA Cook's Tour; the collectionThe Nasty Bits; the novelsBone in the Throat,The Bobby Gold Stories, andGone Bamboo; the biographyTyphoid Mary; and the cookbooksAppetitesandLes Halles Cookbook.

Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Awardwinning docuseriesAnthony Bourdain: Parts Unknownon CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy Awardwi