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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is both Bourdain's professional memoir and a behind-the-scenes look at the professional culinary industry. He describes this work as intense, unpleasant, and sometimes hazardous staffed by misfits. Bourdain believes this industry is not for hobbyists and that anyone entering the industry must have a masochistic, irrational dedication to cooking. '
The book alternates between a confessional narrative and an industry commentary, providing insightful and humorous anecdotes on the cooking trade. Bourdain details some of his personal misdeeds and weaknesses, including drug use.
Publishing DetailsPaperback: 362 pages
Bloomsbury; 2000 reprint