Edition details
Kitchen Confidential, Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain. Frontispiece illustration by Paul Pope and twelve colour photographs (eight double-page spreads) by Jake Chessum. Introduced by Joel Rose. Endpapers printed with a black and white swirling pattern. Silvered page edges. Bound in black cloth blocked on cover with an inset label featuring a photograph of Anthony Bourdain. White slipcase printed in black on all sides with decorative text designed by Kishan Rajani. 26x20cm. 424pp.
About the book
In Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain opens the kitchen door on the restaurant trade, drawing on his years as a working chef to reveal the routines, rivalries and relentless pressures behind a meal. From early encounters with food to the demanding kitchens of New York, he describes the cooks, characters and misfits who shaped his career, along with his own mistakes and excesses. Candid, profane and often very funny, this culinary memoir examines the craft of cooking, the discipline of service and the rough camaraderie that holds a professional kitchen together. Bourdain's love of food runs through an account that is as much about work, ambition and survival as it is about restaurants.
