Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)

THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER The greatest book about food ever writtenA compelling book with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois . more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel Sunday TimesExtraordinary . written with a clarity and a cleareyed wit to put the professional foodwriting fraternity to shame ObserverAfter twentyfive years of sex drugs bad behaviour and haute cuisine chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all and he meant all.From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honkytonk fish restaurant in Provincetown from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again Bourdains tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable as shocking as they are funny.