Kitchen Confidential (ebook), Anthony Bourdain | 9781408820858 | Boeken | bol (2024)

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surprised by how much I cried listening to the audio version of KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL, By the late Anthony Bourdain. I'd previously read the hard copy but wanted to hear HIM. He narrated his book, and it was just so striking to listen to his conviction and love for his craft.

Anthony Bourdain does not believe you need a whole drawer full of knives. He says: “Here is everything you will need in the knife department: a good custom kitchen knife, as big as it is comfortable for your hand. “Bourdain recommends the Global G-2 chef's knife.

"Kitchen Confidential" offered its scandalized (but fascinated) readers a graphic look at an intense, insular professional culture with brutal working hours, dangerous working conditions, (mostly) terrible pay, and a lot of truly strange people.

There is that old cliché about the man who reads living a thousand lives before he dies, and that was true for Bourdain both in the context of the lives that he lived — line cook, drug addict, impoverished artist, world-famous television personality — and in the way that he enriched each of those experiences with a ...

Kitchen Confidential was a bomb. It averaged an anemic 1.8 rating and fewer than 4 million viewers, tying for 121st place alongside long-forgotten series like Reunion and Inconceivable. Despite having 13 episodes in the can, Fox executives quietly canceled it after just three airings. Only four aired in total.

Was born out of an attempt to adapt the original book into a movie called "Seared" starring Brad Pitt and directed by David Fincher. Loosely based on the book "Kitchen Confidential" by chef Anthony Bourdain. Bradley Cooper is a cooking enthusiast.

Fast food and airport meals were often where he drew the line, and believe it or not, pumpkin spice was among the many foods that Bourdain hated with a passion.

The knife was included in Bourdain's estate auction and was sold for $231,250. — after 55 bids, the highest priced item sold in the auction. It was purchased by Chef Marco Pierre White.

What knife do real chefs use? ›

Professional cooks love carbon steel knives because they are easy to sharpen and have the potential to get super sharp, but they require a bit more care and attention than stainless steel knives. Carbon steel needs to be kept very dry and wiped regularly while in use to avoid corrosion.

Ina recommends the Wüsthof Classic eight-inch chef's knife, which is currently on sale on Amazon (it rarely goes on sale!). An eight-inch knife is pretty standard, but depending on the size of your hands, you may want a blade that's a bit shorter.

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.”

If you were to read only one of Bourdain's books, it should probably be his award-winning memoir Kitchen Confidential. Inspired by his 1999 essay Don't Eat Before Reading This, published in The New Yorker, Kitchen Confidential weaves together personal memoir with accolades about the restaurant industry.

Gone Bamboo; 1997

Anthony's second book was another novel. This one, described as a "hilarious crime thriller," centered around a CIA assassin who messed his last assignment up juuust a little bit.

Medium Raw (2010)

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and People Who Cook is a follow-up to Bourdain's 2000 breakthrough best-seller Kitchen Confidential.

Ariane Bourdain

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Writing the way he spoke, his style was no-nonsense and to the point, almost aggressive. After his death in 2018, he was hailed as the “Hemingway of gastronomy” and it's easy to see why: Both men wrote honestly and directly, and had little time for nonsense.