Anthony bourdain books kitchen confidential

book by Anthony Bourdain

This article is about the book by Anthony Bourdain. For the TV series, see Kitchen Confidential (TV series).

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a New York Times bestsellingnonfiction book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain, first published in In , following Bourdain's death, it topped the New York Times non-fiction paperback and non-fiction combined e-book and print lists.^[1]

In , Bourdain's essay "Don't Eat Before Reading This" was published in The New Yorker.^[2] The essay, an unsolicited submission to the magazine, launched Bourdain's media career and served as the foundation for Kitchen Confidential.^[3] Released in to wide acclaim, the book is both a professional memoir and an unfiltered look at the less glamorous aspects of high-end restaurant kitchens, which he describes as unremittingly intense, unpleasant, hazardous, and staffed by misfits.

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