Anthony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential and Medium Raw
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Overview
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author’s bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he’s seen and what he’s seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: ‘Why cook?’ Or the harder one to answer: ‘Why cook well?’ Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.
Anthony Bourdain’s long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide bestseller
Kitchen Confidential has sold more than 400,000 copies in the UK and Commonwealth; A Cook’s Tour has sold more than 135,000 copies.
Bourdain is hugely admired by all the major celebrity chefs, including Gordon Ramsey and Fergus Henderson
Major publicity tour to coincide with publication, including high-profile festival appearances, feature articles and widespread review coverage
Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino
Terrific ... his love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings
A compelling book with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois ... more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel
- Title: Anthony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw
- Author: Anthony Bourdain
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 431
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408821022, 1408821028
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408821022
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:37:34Z
Anthony Bourdain was the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and the author of the novels: Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories and Gone Bamboo. His work appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Food Arts magazine. He was the host of the international CNN television series Parts Unknown.