Real insight into the back of the house

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	• Kitchen Confidential Updated E Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) Anthony Bourdain Harper Perennial, 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 570 reviews view larger image
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This thing of ours

In another of Bourdain's books, The Nasty Bits, he includes an article about books about the kitchen lifestyle that he turns to in the toughest times. When you've worked a gruelling a double, body exhausted from the day and the night before when you actually had a night off and spent it more than likely overdrinking and drugging, and now you have to deal with the owner and his half realized "vision of culinary exquisiteness." It's these little things that anybody who has ever worked in a restaurant back or front of the house can relate to. Among these he lists several including Down and Out in London and Paris and Flash in the Pan. Go ahead and add this masterpiece and the other book I mentioned, Nasty Bits, to this list. This is what Bourdain truly excels at when writing. True, he is also good with traditional food criticism, he is interested and therefore writes more interestingly about the overall lifestyle of a restaurant lifer.

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Great read!!

Anthony, a.k.a. Tony, is a great writer, at times I feel like I am there in the kitchen with him. His sense of humor is off the charts and I truely have taken in some of his suggestions.
If you want and eye opening, fast paced read this is the book for you.

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Real insight into the back of the house

As a fan of the show and someone that worked the "front of the house" during my youth, I was interested in reading this for various reasons.
I enjoy the "No Reservations" but I can't say I love Anthony Bourdain. I like him enough and he is an enjoyable enough host, but sometimes I have to think; How did this guy get his own show? Anyway, the book is good and paints a very realistic picture of what it's like working in the restaurant business. As I said, I worked the front, waiting tables, room service etc. and had my run in with many cooks. Anthony gets it right; Cooks are an odd bunch and this a fascinating read. Try "Dishwasher" by Dishwasher Pete for a similar look from the dishpit.
Enjoy!

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Kitchen Confidential

If you love Anthony Bourdain, you'll love this book! It's like he's reading the book to you.

Kitchen in the raw...

Bourdain's book claims to be the inside scoop on what a restaurant kitchen is really like. He does, at the end, give a caveat that some new restaurants don't run the way he did/does. The book is a good read,if a bit raw in the language.

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