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

3.5

Audiobook narrated by the author.  He did a good job. Very entertaining, although I did not want to know many of the things I learned about restaurants.    Bourdain seemed like he was self-aware of his bravado, which made it a little easier to stomach.  I found it uncanny and a little disturbing how often he referenced suicide throughout the book.  It was always in a joking way, but it left me wondering if it was some kind of coping mechanism.  He didn't give any sense of a struggle with mental illness, besides the drug addition, (which could have been enough, I suppose).  I would be interested in reading more memoirs from his later years to see if the tone changed.  RIP Tony Bourdain. 
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