Anthony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw

Anthony Bourdain

Jun 2011 · A&C Black

About this ebook

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he's seen and what he's seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: 'Why cook?' Or the harder one to answer: 'Why cook well?' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.

Ratings and reviews

Its interesting to read these books back to back. You get to see the changes that occur with age (money helps too). It almost seems like they were written by two different people.

Really good, honest introspection about his experiences and the industry. Its a great way to get more perspective on the shows and other commentary about Anthony Bourdain's work.

Perfect always slaps me around the face when i get a little down

About the author

Anthony Bourdain was the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and the author of the novels: Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories and Gone Bamboo. His work appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Food Arts magazine. He was the host of the international CNN television series Parts Unknown.