Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain

Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain

Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Recently, The New Yorker published chef Anthony Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no one's appetite in this tell-all about what happens behind the kitchen door.

Now, the author uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable audiobook, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. 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 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.

Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You'll beg the chef for more, please.

Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. This is his first work of nonfiction. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.

Hear an exclusive interview with Bourdain.

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2000 Anthony Bourdain
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Tony will always be dearly missed

Nothing is more fun to listen to than Anthony reading his own beautiful explicit
tales.

Rough and Ready

This book gives it to you without pulling punches. Good timeline, realistic view of life as a chef, and gives you an appreciation for the job.

Great storyteller

No boring parts, the book keeps your attention from the beginning till the end - magnificent.

Maybe the best book I've ever read

I know I'm late to the game on this one. I've heard bits and pieces of this book over the last 18 years. Don't eat fish on Monday. The bread is recycled. Probably from people who never read the book themselves, but heard the tale from a friend, who heard it from a friend who probably read the book.

The book, itself, is a gem. Not a wasted word. Every word with a purpose. I've never worked in a restaurant so it's all new to me. Sure, I've heard horror stories from friends who worked in food service while in college. What I heard when I read this book was shocking, vulger, hilarious, true, spectacular.

The narration is by Anthony, himself, and completely draws you in. The pace, inflection, and tone are perfect.

I can't recommend this book enough. You will never look at food or the restaurant business the same ever again.

For anyone

for all those would be shifts all those weekend warrior shows all those who want to enter the food sources from the perspective of a real living legend!

Incredible

Everything he did is a treasure and it makes me sad and happy when I listen to this work of a genuine genius.

Hilarious chef antics!

This is one of those books you listen to and don’t want to pause. If foul language bothers you, move on to something else or give it a listen and learn something about life. Thank you Anthony for your contributions to life, you will be greatly missed and we all have the gift of being able to hear your story, unedited, raw, freaking real, and I’m sure there’s many who can relate and learn from the wisdom you shared.

9/10

drags a little 2/3 the way through, some words used too often, but this book has an absolutely addicting story and nice, bouncy language.

so edgy and entertaining!

well performed. I felt like I was in a 90's kitchen with steaming pots and sweaty cook staff :)

Hungry

This book is awesome and funny. What a shame the author is no longer with us. He was a true character that told his story with integrity and grit.