The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations : 25th Anniversary
edition with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh. BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR THERE WAS
BOURDAIN. 'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino' A.A. Gill 'Fantastic: as
lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli' Daily Telegraph After
twenty-five years of sex drugs bad behaviour and haute cuisine chef and novelist Anthony
Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all . From his first oyster in the Gironde as a
child to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown
from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East
Village from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as
passionate as they are unpredictable as shocking as they are funny. Kitchen Confidential
will make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter and leave you wanting more.
'Compelling . with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois . more horrifically
gripping than a Stephen King novel' Sunday Times 'Extraordinary . written with a clarity and
a clear-eyed wit to put the professional food-writing fraternity to shame' Observer
