It's hard to know how much Bourdain used to be a schmuck, is still a schmuck, or likes presenting himself as a schmuck. He seems to have been a genuine schmuck at times, as compared to, say, the schmuck-like stylings of James Frey. There's a lot I like about Bourdain, though, including how he discus...
With this long awaited true follow-up to Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain has shown himself to be older, wiser, snarkier and unafraid to call out by name those he considers villains or heros. He is obviously confidently secure in his place in popular culture, yet humble and genuinely in awe of ...
Unlike a large number of Americans, I've never read Kitchen Confidential, and have avoided watching Bourdain on TV. The glimpses I've had of him on commercials and so forth have made him seem rather mean and sarcastic, which does little to endear me to a person.This collection of essays is interest...
Book: ★ ★ ½Narration: ★ ★ ★ ½I love watching Bourdain's TV shows. I especially love it when he's a judge on Top Chef. I also love to read when he blogs about the show too. For some reason though, his books end up being sort of mediocre. I only got through half of Kitchen Confidential before I gave u...
This was one I enjoyed. It is not a perfect book. There are a couple of chapters that I just found slow or just not interesting enough (the one on Chef Chang and the chapter before that one come to mind). However, Bourdain is strongest when writing about more common experiences. I found the chapter ...
More of a collection of essays than a true follow-up to Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, this was an entertaining look at how the author's life and the food industry have changed in the ten years since his publishing success. Bourdain does not pull any punches and does n...
As much of a jerk as he can be, I love Bourdain and his unrepentant attitude. I love that he will eat anything, (and yeah, he DOES eat ortolan in this book, and yes I enjoyed reading about it though I can't imagine putting a whole bird in my own mouth. Ever.) I love that he's so unapologetic about w...
While he wins Kate's award for terrible metaphors (used over and over and over), Anthony Bourdain can write about food like no other. Take this sentence:With every bite, as the thing bones and layers of fat, meat, skin, and organs compact in on themselves, there are sublime dribbles of varied and an...
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