“Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois.” (New York magazine)
“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry...you’re gonna love it.” (Denver Post)
“The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages.” (USA Today)
Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory. (USA Today)
A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique. (Newsweek)
Bourdain’s prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois. (New York magazine)
Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors. (New York Times Book Review)
