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Anthony Bourdain

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Cover of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain threw open the kitchen door and let civilians see the chaos, profanity, and strange honor of professional cooking. Kitchen Confidential is a swaggering, hilarious, occasionally horrifying memoir that made a chef into a literary voice.