|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anthony Bourdain |
|
|
|
cookbook
reviewskitchen confidential |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kitchen
Confidential
(Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly) Anthony Bourdain St.
Martins Press, 2000 $19.96
Click
Here to Buy It On Line!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Review |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In
Anthony Bourdain’s newest book he tells the tale of what it
is really like to be a professional cook and chef. In his amusing,
if somewhat exaggerated, account of life behind the scenes of
various restaurants in and around New York over a 25-year period,
he holds nothing back.
Anthony Bourdain has been a professional chef for many years
and his observations seem to ring true for the most part. A
great deal of what he writes seems to be designed to offend
and grab the readers attention while other parts are an informative
narrative of what life in this business is really like. After
reading his book I can only hope to never work in any of the
kitchens he has passed through. While he seems to be a staunch
supporter of his kitchen staff he does not spare any other segment
of the restaurant industry from the sharp side of his pen-including
his customers.
I think his book should be taken with a grain of salt when read.
It is entertaining but not a book to be taken too seriously.
At twenty-five dollars it is a book that a cook would be better
off checking out from the library as opposed to paying out the
equivalent of three hours worth of pay. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|