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I find that every March my depression returns and I start rewatching Anthony Bourdain episodes. This year to celebrate my annual depressive episode I’ve decided to read ‘Kitchen Confessionals.’
I’ve worked in one kitchen during my life, it was the first and it became the last. I find it incredible the way he is writing about 20-30 years ago is still oh so very true.
I had my chef husband listen at some points, we both laughing at the unfortunate nature of kitchens. That yes, everyone does fuck each other (at one point I had 2 bartenders and 2 servers all fucking each at once … they happened to be my only FOH staff that night).
Yes, they all do drugs and supply the drugs and consume the drugs right there. And how many line cooks did I pretend to not hear doing lines next to me in the bathroom?!
Restaurants are for the masochist of society, no one endures that pain for the joy of cooking.
I’ve worked in one kitchen during my life, it was the first and it became the last. I find it incredible the way he is writing about 20-30 years ago is still oh so very true.
I had my chef husband listen at some points, we both laughing at the unfortunate nature of kitchens. That yes, everyone does fuck each other (at one point I had 2 bartenders and 2 servers all fucking each at once … they happened to be my only FOH staff that night).
Yes, they all do drugs and supply the drugs and consume the drugs right there. And how many line cooks did I pretend to not hear doing lines next to me in the bathroom?!
Restaurants are for the masochist of society, no one endures that pain for the joy of cooking.
So much context and really captivating stories. I especially loved the chapter on his trip to Japan.
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Wow this book kind of broke me. I felt so intertwined in Bourdain’s world, mirroring my experiences and acquaintances in restaurants so his accounts could’ve been in my own past places of employment. My dad has referenced this book multiple times and recurrently talks about Bourdain’s power to run the room; yet, I was completely blown away by his power with words. It was almost chilling to read such an intimate account of an industry so grueling and disturbing with such love and passion for the product, especially considering the excerpts where he discusses drug use and suicide of past employees. I found it extremely tragic to hear (through his audiobook reading) his view of having passed his struggle with addiction and his everlasting love with his wife with current knowledge of his passing and divorce. I feel an overwhelming amount of sympathy, grief and gratitude for Anthony Bourdain’s presence and ability to memorialize my same fascination with the restaurant industry.
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