There are long meditations on the state of the new york restaurant business which will make about as much sense to british readers as an arabic menu.
Kitchen confidential review new york times. When kitchen confidential was first published 18 years ago the times gave it a rave saying that bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors little. Farrar straus giroux. On june 8 2000 18 years to the day before his death in france at age 61 of an apparent suicide usa today published its review of kitchen confidential a tell all book by a barely known new york. Linda stein a real estate agent to the stars sees the open closed debate in sociological almost taxonomic terms.
The singed forearms at the hands of a tyrannical kitchen overlord so to find one. Culinary memoirs tend to follow templates the life altering bite. Anthony bourdain surveys the food world 10 years after kitchen confidential.