Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (164 results)
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Paperback. Condition: New. The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations: 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh.THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY, STARRING DOMINIC SESSA and EMILIA JONES.'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino' A.A. Gill'Fantastic: as lip-…smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli' Daily TelegraphAfter twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all.From his first oyster in the Gironde as a child, to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter and leave you wanting more.'Compelling . with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois . more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel' Sunday Times'Extraordinary . written with a clarity and a clear-eyed wit to put the professional food-writing fraternity to shame' Observer.
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Language: English
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, US, 2007
Series: Kitchen Confidential, Book 1 of 1. Book 1 of 1 - Kitchen Confidential
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- Hardcover
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Sex, Drugs und Haute Cuisine - 'Einen so intimen Blick hinter die Küchentür hat uns bisher noch kein Koch gestattet - schreiend komisch und respekteinflößend!' (Wolfram Siebeck, Die Zeit)Montags keine Meeresfrüchte! Das ist noch eines der harmloseren Gebote, auf die Starkoch Anthony Bourdain… in seinen gnadenlosen, abgründig witzigen Memoiren hinweist. Von seiner ersten Auster an der Gironde über seine bescheidene Stellung als Tellerwäscher in einem Fischrestaurant in Provincetown bis hin zur Küche des Rainbow Room auf dem Rockefeller Center, von Drogendealern im East Village und Jobs in Tokio, Paris und New York - Bourdain hat alles durchlebt, was die wahrhaft heiße Gastroszene zu bieten hat. Ein unvergesslicher Blick hinter die Küchentür und eine abenteuerliche Reise in die dunklen Gefilde der kulinarischen Welt eines Sternekochs.Mit einem Vowort von Irvine Welsh und handschriftlichen Notizen des Autors.Erstmals 2001 unter dem Titel 'Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs' auf Deutsch erschienen.
- Softcover
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- Softcover
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In brossura. In buone condizioni.
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Add to basketSoft Cover. Condition: Good. Adventures in the culinary underbelly. Bloomsbury. London. 2001. De 19,5x13 cm. Com x, 307, [iii] págs. Brochado. Exemplar com pequeno dano no pé da lombada. Language: Português / Portuguese Location/localizacao: I-200-G-28.
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Add to basketbrossura paperback. Condition: Good. 1. Copertina plastificata. Pagine ingiallite. paperback 295 Buono (Good) . Book.
Published by Harpercollins, New York, 2001
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.Rare Book Cellar
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Add to basketSoftcover. First Edition; Seventh Printing. Near Fine in wraps.
Published by Ecco Press, New York, 2001
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- First Edition
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.Rare Book Cellar
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Add to basketSoftcover. First Edition Thus; Twelfth Printing. Very Good+ in wraps.
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More imagesSeller: Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library
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Audio Book (CD). Condition: Good. Audio Book .Random House Audio's set of 7 compact discs.The heavy card case for discs #s 1-4 has been creased at the top of the spine., but this does not appear to have impacted the discs. The outer case has small tears on the bottom and is creased on the side panels. Please see all images. Read… by the late author.
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- Softcover
Seller: Goodbookscafe, Macon, GA, U.S.A.Goodbookscafe
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Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition with very little wear. interior pages are clean & unmarked. but interior pages & page edges are starting to tan a bit. book is still readable.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, U.S.A.Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First UK Edition. Full number line 10-1. In black boards with red foil to type. Light wear to spine ends and top corners and light ding to top of rear board. Clean with solid binding. Jacket is unclipped (16.99 pounds) with some light wear to top e…dge of jacket panels and spine ends. 1st Printing.
More imagesPublished by Ecco Press, 2000
- Softcover
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Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United KingdomSurrey Hills Books
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Add to basketFirst printing of the Ecco Press paperback edition. Very good plus condition, showing only light signs of wear. Faded spine. Clean and free from any internal markings or inscriptions. Book.
More imagesPublished by Ecco Press, New York, 2000
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.Medium Rare Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ecco Press; an imprint of HarperCollins. New York. 2000. 302 pages. Wraps. First edition, first printing of the softcover edition with a full numberline including 1. The softcover edition introduces a new preface by Anthony Bourdain that is not in the hardcover edition. Book is tigh…t and clean. No reader's crease on spine. No writing within. Covers are bright with slightest dulling to yellow hue. Minimal soiling at base of rear cover. A tight, clean, NF copy of the first edition, first printing in softcover.
More imagesPublished by Ecco Press, New York, 2000
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.Medium Rare Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ecco Press; an imprint of HarperCollins. New York. 2000. 302 pages. Wraps. First edition, first printing of the softcover edition with a full numberline including 1. The softcover edition introduces a new preface by Anthony Bourdain that is not in the hardcover edition. Book is tigh…t and clean. No reader's crease on spine. No writing within. A tight, clean, NF copy of the first edition, first printing in softcover.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, 2000
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Seller: Laureate Fine Books, Poultney, VT, U.S.A.Laureate Fine Books
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. A Very Good book in a Very Good or Better Dust Jacket, Unclipped ($24.95). Book is moderately bumped & lightly sunned and dust soiled to extremities. Text block with spots of dust soiling. Text is unmarked; several leaves with quite minor curling to corners. B…inding is tight but cocked toward rear board. Dust jacket is moderately bumped to tail and crown causing come wrinkling. A few scuffs and scratches to jacket panels. Spine panel somewhat sunned. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], [2], 3-307pp. Publisher's Black Boards, Red Detailing First Edition, First Printing [Full Number Line].
More imagesPublished by London Bloomsbury 2000, 2000
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Add to basketA first edition, first printing of 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain published by Bloomsbury, London, 2000. First UK edition. 8vo. Black cloth boards, stamped in red foil to spine. A very good book in like unclipped wrapper - a touch faded to the red titles - full numberline - a strangely scarce book. As A A Gill said,…'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino.'.
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Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First UK edition. First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. x, 307, [3]. Black cloth boards, stamped in red foil to spine. Named Food Writer of the Year by Bon Appétit magazine in 2001. When chef Anthony Bourdain published "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker in April 1999,…he spared no one's appetite, by revealing the goings-on on behind the kitchen door. In this modern culinary classic, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that laid bare his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine. Following his suicide in June 2018, an online auction of more than 200 of his most prized possessions, among them the original Kitchen Confidential manuscript, raised over $1.8 million to be shared between his family and the founding of a scholarship in his name at the Culinary Institute of America. "With equal parts wit and wickedness, Bourdain [does] the unthinkable by revealing trade secrets that chefs and restauranteurs cringe to read." -Restaurant Business Magazine.
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Add to basketdj. First Edition. Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000), a work by the beloved American chef documenting professional kitchen culture in late twentieth-century American restaurant life. Emerging from Bourdain's experience as a New York chef, the book presents an account of culinar…y work that foregrounds hierarchy, discipline, and the lived realities of restaurant staff. The text situates cooking within a broader cultural framework, addressing masculinity, class, and identity as expressed through the structure and practices of the professional kitchen, and offering insight into the social composition of culinary labor forces, including immigrant and working-class participants. Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. New York: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition, first printing. Octavo, 312 pages. Original black cloth boards with silver spine lettering, in original pictorial dust jacket featuring a photographic portrait of the author in chef's attire. The text is structured as a sequence of autobiographical and thematic chapters, combining narrative accounts of the author's early culinary experiences, professional advancement, and personal challenges with commentary on restaurant operations. Content includes descriptions of kitchen hierarchy, food preparation practices, staff interactions, and working conditions, alongside discussions of menu development, sourcing, and service. The volume incorporates both narrative passages and direct commentary, presenting detailed observations of restaurant environments and personnel. Published at the turn of the twenty-first century, this work reflects a shift in food writing toward examination of labor, production, and professional culture rather than solely culinary aesthetics. The book contributed to broader public awareness of restaurant operations and the individuals involved in food production, influencing subsequent media representations of chefs and kitchen work. It supports research into food studies, labor history, and cultural representations of the culinary industry. Light edge wear to boards and minor surface scuffing to dust jacket; binding tight; overall very good condition. A significant example of contemporary culinary writing documenting the internal culture of professional kitchens.
More imagesPublished by Bloomsbury, (New York), 2000
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- First Edition
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Type Punch Matrix
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Add to basketdj. First printing. First edition of the landmark culinary memoir by the late, beloved Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain's flamboyant account of a thrilling, dirty underworld of cooks and restauranteurs fueled by cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, adrenaline, and raw, bloody ambition. Beneath his fondness for shocking phrases and absolute jud…gments, Bourdain's passion for food extended to passionate respect for the people and cultures that produce it. The author's stylistic flair inspired innumerable would-be chef-rock-star imitators, but his own leather-jacketed outlaw persona was balanced by persistent self-awareness; KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL showcases not only his wit and nerve, but also a good-hearted humor that only grew more kind and humane over the years. 9'' x 6''. Original black boards with spine lettering stamped in red. In original unclipped ($24.95) photographic dust jacket. x, 308, [2] pages. A few faint creases to front flap. Touches of shefwear, faint soil here and there. Very good plus in a very good plus or better jacket.
