![]() I approached Kitchen Confidential with a degree of scepticism and trepidation – could it really hold up, two decades on? Given the saturation of food books, shows, tweets, etc. ![]() I had, of course, encountered Bourdain through his popular (and easily binged) travel shows, and read articles of his across the plethora of newspapers and journals he wrote for – but never the foundational text. It even spawned a (perhaps thankfully) short-lived television series starring none other than Bradley Cooper as the lead.ĭespite this, I had not read the book before I sat down with it for this review. It propelled Bourdain, previously a successful executive chef and rather middling fiction author, into counter-cultural god-like status. It hit The NY Times’ bestsellers list, and received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, branded a classic by Jay Rayner. When first published, Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly was nothing short of a revelation. ![]() ![]() A word of warning: this article will contain references to drug use, sexual harassment and suicide. ![]()
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