It mixes things that mix well: my love for travel, my love for food, my love for a good damn story with interesting characters. Over Christmas, while visiting and bonding my foodie brother in Arkansas, he introduces me to Parts Unknown on CNN. He was, like that girl you know in class, but have never given much real attention to (only later to discover she is witty, wicked, and everything you want in a lover and fear in a daughter. I might have seen him on CNN, the Travel Channel or the Food Network while searching for another show on another station. I might have seen Bourdain's books as I wandered through a bookstore. Well friend, the thrill of a late discovery (even when you are 15 years late to the party) is still pretty damn sweet. There is a certain thrill to being the first person to reach the top of a mountain, the first to eat at a soon-to-be famous restaurant, the first to discover an author, a band, a new food or experience.

He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.Ī Crazy, Hyper Dance From the Kitchen to the Table. You'll beg the chef for more, please.Īnthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo.

Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. 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. 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. 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.

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