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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain

19 reviews

megnut's review against another edition

emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

I think I've found some of my favorite lines in this book... and definitely had a hard time not profusely swearing after listening to it for a while. 

RIP, Chef. This was a delight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

anna_luvs_cheez's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Vomit, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

Great book, audio book is great, can get a little graphic at times with kitchen injuries

kutreen's review

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

For someone with no experience working in the food service industry, this was quite eye-opening, though I understand many things might have changed since Bourdain's career as a chef from the 70s to the 00s and also in different kinds of restaurants than the ones he worked in, and outside of NYC. Bourdain's audience is mostly other cooks, so there was a lot about different dishes, tools, and techniques that I didn't understand, but I liked that nothing seemed sugar-coated or dumbed down for us civilians. Bourdain is a great writer, which honestly I did not expect for a career chef, and is fantastic at conveying the chaotic atmosphere of a kitchen and the mind of a cook; most of all this is what kept me hooked.

There is a lot of alarming behavior by cooks in and out of kitchens that Bourdain mostly meets with an "oh well" which isn't acceptable by today's standards, but I see why that was his response at the time based on the kitchen culture he had spent ~30 years in.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual content

cibani's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Alcohol, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, and Drug use

aus10england's review against another edition

funny informative tense fast-paced

4.5

this is what memoirs should be written like!! Engaging, insightful, full of laughs, and hard to read anecdotes. Very impressed by this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Homophobia, Racism, and Suicide

Minor: Rape

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective fast-paced

3.5

not so much a memoir as a detailed, enjoyable account of bourdain's time in the culinary industry, kitchen confidential is a fast, hilarious, self-deprecating and informative read. there's resto secrets, kitchen dynamics, no-frill recipes, marvels on the awesomeness of food, and musings on different ppl and food cultures. man was rly ahead of his time im; whats not to like? i love food and i miss mr. bourdain very much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content, Racism, Drug use, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicide

litliz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Sexual content, Cursing, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Bullying, Mental illness, and Sexual harassment

youngluteplayer's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Cursing

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Drug abuse

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

2.5

My son, a bartender, wanted me to read this.  I was not an Anthony Bourdain fan, having never read any of his books, nor watched his shows.  This book didn't make me a fan, either.  

I think I would have liked it if I'd read it in the early 2000s when it was first published.  As a forty-something person, I would have enjoyed this book's rough, vulgar, stream-of-consciousness.  But reading it in 2023 was a different experience.  I found the repeated descriptions of substance abuse, criminal activity, and swearing tiring and boring.  

The book's best parts were the detailed descriptions of what it takes to manage and run a restaurant and the incredible skill and timing of the people working on the line.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Self harm, Violence, Drug use, Sexism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Cursing, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Vomit

crssmith's review

adventurous dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Addiction, Emotional abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Racial slurs