Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Insider's Edition) by Anthony Bourdain
22 reviews
lizsurber's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Sexual content, Cursing, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Bullying, Mental illness, and Sexual harassment
lori_j's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug use and Alcohol
Moderate: Drug abuse and Alcoholism
jenmcreads's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, and Drug abuse
kimveach's review against another edition
2.5
I think I would have liked it if I'd read it in the early 2000s when it was first published. As a forty-something person, I would have enjoyed this book's rough, vulgar, stream-of-consciousness. But reading it in 2023 was a different experience. I found the repeated descriptions of substance abuse, criminal activity, and swearing tiring and boring.
The book's best parts were the detailed descriptions of what it takes to manage and run a restaurant and the incredible skill and timing of the people working on the line.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Self harm, Violence, Drug use, Sexism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Cursing, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Vomit
eilishtoohey's review against another edition
4.0
Kitchen Confidential is a difficult book to review, since Bourdain himself would go on to regret most of what he wrote here. This is particularly obvious in this edition, which includes handwritten annotations Bourdain wrote 12 years after the original publication date. It creates a stark contrast between the more inexperienced—I'm hesitant to say 'immature,' considering Bourdain was in his 40s when the book was released—narrator of the main text and the Bourdain that the world would come to know. As he states in the book's introduction, "I never knew shit about shit."
Read the full review at My Cluttered Bookshelf.
Graphic: Blood, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Gore
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, and Suicide
kellyofcali's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Addiction, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, and Drug use
Minor: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
mandaraffe's review against another edition
Graphic: Bullying, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Racism, Xenophobia, Fatphobia, Blood, Cursing, Sexism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content
Moderate: Animal death and Racial slurs
Minor: Suicide
thesubwayreader's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Alcoholism
kumquats87's review against another edition
4.5
Also, don’t order the fish on Mondays.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Bullying, Gaslighting, and Classism
Minor: Excrement, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Sexism
lindsayerin's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia
Moderate: Sexism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Alcohol