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(Bourdain, 2000) ⇒ Anthony Bourdain. (2000). “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.” Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN:0-7475-5072-7

Subject Headings: Memoir; Culinary Literature; Exposè

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(Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Confidential_(book) Retrieved:2024-5-5.
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain, first published in 2000. In 2018, following Bourdain's death, it topped the New York Times non-fiction paperback and non-fiction combined e-book and print lists. In 1999, Bourdain's essay "Don't Eat Before Reading This" was published in The New Yorker. The essay, an unsolicited submission to the magazine, launched Bourdain's media career and served as the foundation for Kitchen Confidential. Released in 2000 to wide acclaim, the book is both a professional memoir and an unfiltered look at the less glamorous aspects of high-end restaurant kitchens, which he describes as unremittingly intense, unpleasant, hazardous, and staffed by misfits. Bourdain believes that the kitchen is no place for dilettantes or slackers and that only those with a dedication to cooking will remain undeterred.

. “Good food is very often, even most often, simple food."
. “To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living."
. “Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic."
. “Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect."
. “Good food and good eating are about risk."
. “Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod."
. “An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins."
. “I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living—all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents."
. “Writing anything is a treason of sorts."
. “At the base of my right forefinger is an inch-and-a-half diagonal callus, yellowish-brown in color, where the heels of all the knives I've ever owned have rested."

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2000 KitchenConfidentialAdventuresin	Anthony Bourdain			Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly						2000