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A review by aamna
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain
4.0
[Read the ebook while simultaneously listening to Bourdain narrating]
*Really* enjoyed the first quarter of the book. The chapter on the day in the life of a chef had me out of breath by the end. The rest, where he gets into culinary specifics (which for a cooking-hater, non-chef like me, range from mildly interesting to very disturbing), I would have skipped/skimmed had it not been for the FOMO of missing out on his snarky comments - some gems in there. The last couple of lines of the book were saddening, in the light of the fact that he killed himself.
I imagine this wasn't meant to be a memoir but it's amazing how much you learn about Bourdain; considering 70% of the book is him talking about other people. His writing style seems to match his personality(to the extent one can gauge from a single book). He has the kind of brazen unapologetic attitude that you absolutely loathe or have a crush on. So I guess I'm crushing on him now.
Now I'm gonna go and binge watch all his TV shows
*Really* enjoyed the first quarter of the book. The chapter on the day in the life of a chef had me out of breath by the end. The rest, where he gets into culinary specifics (which for a cooking-hater, non-chef like me, range from mildly interesting to very disturbing), I would have skipped/skimmed had it not been for the FOMO of missing out on his snarky comments - some gems in there. The last couple of lines of the book were saddening, in the light of the fact that he killed himself.
I imagine this wasn't meant to be a memoir but it's amazing how much you learn about Bourdain; considering 70% of the book is him talking about other people. His writing style seems to match his personality(to the extent one can gauge from a single book). He has the kind of brazen unapologetic attitude that you absolutely loathe or have a crush on. So I guess I'm crushing on him now.
Now I'm gonna go and binge watch all his TV shows