An interesting look behind the scenes and some scary warnings: no more mussels in a restaurant or fish on Monday for me. The beginning chapters felt slow and a bit awkward and I am still not sure that I needed a chapter on the rules surrounding crude kitchen talk, but again that may be just me.
17th Feb 2010 - Look what I got uin the post today - from GR flister Hayes down there in Italy.Dear M used to be the chef on a transport boat and loves to cook so we have this playing in the kitchen as we work - he is loving it and I'm reserving judgement.
I am a good cook. I know because people tell me so. When I present my balsamic leg of lamb, served with roasted garlic smashed potatoes, and a apple-onion soup, my friends all tell me I should start a restaurant. But I know better. Cooking for a hobby is fun, cooking for a living is dreadful. I know...
I will be the first to admit that I have a slight crush on Anthony Bourdain. I don't want to sleep with him but I would love to hang out with him. This book was full of interesting and funny stories, life lessons and passion. You can tell Anthony Bourdain loves his life and it translates on the page...
One chef's tale of food and the food industry. I didn't want to read the long chapters on why he got into cooking (as a rambunctious kid, he had an oyster) or why other chefs are better than him. I wish there had been more on the food and the industry; those chapters were fascinating. If this boo...
Cooking and especially professional gourmet cooking is something I've always found very interesting. I don't know exactly why, seeing as I have no dreams of becoming a chef myself, but it's probably one of the reasons why I liked Ratatouille so much :) I'd heard very mixed reviews of this book, but ...
A fun romp into the underbelly of the restaurant kitchen. Bourdain is a bad boy (from a well to do family) who's fun to read about. I found him strangely charming. Really all of us when we eat in a restaurant have to let go of worries about what goes on behind the closed kitchen door and who's do...
This fast paced entertaining book by renowned chef Anthony Bourdain will make you see restaurants in a whole new light. Never order fish on a Monday...
It's quite an adventure in reading too. Drugs, food and rock&roll. Anthony Bourdain doesn't hold back much and it's interesting to see how some kitchen operate in the very tough universe. A place where everything is about having some balls and guts. Of course, not every chef is a maniac like Bourdai...
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