Bestselling chef and host of "No Reservations" has never been one to pull punches. In his latest work, he serves up a well-seasoned "hellbroth" of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures.
"I've been a chef in New York for more than ten years, and, for the decade before that, a dishwasher, a prep drone, a line cook, and a sous-chef. I came into the business when cooks still smoked on the line and wore headbands." After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided ...
"No Reservations" is Bourdain's fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels throughout the world. The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and oddball mementoes with Bourdain's hilarious and outrageous tales of what really happens when you give a bad-boy ...
Bourdain, bestselling writer, chef, television host, and traveler, edits this year's collection of the finest travel writing from the past year. Contributors include Bill Buford, David Sedaris, Gary Shteyngart, Paul Theroux, Calvin Trillin, and Catherine Watson.
Chefs have been playing the My Last Supper game among themselves for decades, if not centuries, but it had always been kept within the profession until now. This volume showcases the fascinating answers from 50 of the worlds most famous chefs, alongside stunning "Vanity Fair"-style portraits.
Anthony Bourdain follows up his best-selling memoir, KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, with this account of a world tour in search of not only the perfect meal but the perfect total food experience. Traveling to Vietnam, Japan, France, Mexico, and other places, he has a series of adventures, both culinary and other, including many wonderful meals.
Ex-Vietnam War-hero and ex-CIA-assassin Henri Denard has retired to a plush life on St. Martin with his lovely wife, Francis. But Henri left a job for a crime boss undone, and now it's time to pay the piper. The target, Donnie Wicks, has just moved into the mansion next door, and Henri's itching to find a way out of this sticky situation.
Anthony Bourdain is already well known as a chef and a writer of mysteries. Now he tackles the short story with these 12 tales of Bobby Gold, a bouncer in a New York club called the Nite Klub.
From the best-selling author of Kitchen Confidential comes this true, thrilling tale of pursuit through the kitchens of New York City at the turn of the century. By the late nineteenth century, it seemed that New York City had put an end to the outbreaks of typhoid fever that had so frequently decimated the city's population. That is until 1904, ...
Owner and chef of Montreal's innovative Au Pied de Cochon restaurant, Martin Picard brings together 55 of the restaurant's recipes in this sumptuous album, which not only dodges culinary fads but also breaks the mold of the typical cookbook in its playful, award-winning design. There's no calorie counting here -- Picard leads readers into ...
Bourdain crisscrosses the world, sampling local delicacies from the sublime to the bizarre. Throughout his travels, Bourdain discovers again and again the importance of community, kinship, and the power of food to bring people together.
Ruhlman is renowned for bringing the secrets of great cooking to a large audience, just as he did in "The Making of a Chef" and "The French Laundry Cookbook." Now, he pares the knowledge of the kitchen into the essentials of good cooking in a slim, easy-to-use book.
The world is discovering Vietnamese food, and it's a happy discovery indeed. Chef Bobby Chin, renowned master of Vietnamese cuisine, presents an authentic guide to Vietnamese food as it is prepared and enjoyed today. His lively text meshes with Jason Lowe's striking color photos of Vietnam's markets, kitchens, people, and foods.Barron's ...
The ultimate insider's story, "Dirty Dishes" offers a no-holds-barred accountby the legendary restaurateur, from his boyhood in Tuscany to his rise, fall, and rebirth in the New York food world.
New York City chef/author Anthony Bourdain is invited to film the research laboratory of Ferran Adria, the most controversial and imitated chef in the world--chef/owner of El Bulli, voted "World's Best" by Restaurant Magazine and the most visited by chefs on sabbatical. The lab, an ultra modern, Dr. No-like facility with sliding walls, backlit ...
Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents what they eat may surprise you. Extreme Cuisine examines eating habits across the global neighbourhood, showing once and for all that road kill for one culture is restaurant fare for another! As Anthony Bourdain says: Enjoy. Eat without fear or prejudice, secure in the knowledge that millions ...
The chef's towering white toque, the high bonnet, is the mark of achievement to which every young sauce-stirrer aspires. Idwal Jones's urbane novel follows the young provincial Jean as he attempts to master culinary art at the hands of Paris's most distinguished chefs. Jean will win his high bonnet and the royal bearing that accompanies it - but ...
Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking "Don't Eat Before Reading This". Bourdain spared no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. He uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. ...
The ever-popular Kitchen Confidential is now available in Spanish. Get the truth about the real conditions of a three-star restaurant, and read about what goes on behind kitchen doors. Find out from Bourdain why you should not order fish on a Monday, why it is not wise to order well-done meat and why seafood frittata is not a good selection for ...
The ever-popular Kitchen Confidential is now available in Spanish. Get the truth about the real conditions of a three-star restaurant, and read about what goes on behind kitchen doors. Find out from Bourdain why you should not order fish on a Monday, why it is not wise to order well-done meat and why seafood frittata is not a good selection for ...
Bestselling chef and host of "No Reservations" has never been one to pull punches. In his latest work, he serves up a well-seasoned "hellbroth" of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures.
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