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

5.0

I've always been in awe at how someone with Bourdain's checkered past and obsessive commitment to a trade can also be a storyteller and writer that I, a semi-pretentious literature enthusiast, am envious of, but you can't help but love it. There are a lot of anecdotes in here that didn't age all that well, but it's clear his soul and his sensibilities have always been in the right place. I'm particularly fond to his continuous acknowledgement that Latinos are the backbone of the industry. What a hole he left in the world.