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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
22 reviews
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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
myclutteredbookshelf'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: Cursing, Drug abuse, Gore, Blood, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, and Suicide
kellyofcali's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Racism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury
kristireads's review
4.0
Moderate: Suicide
mandaraffe's review
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death and Racial slurs
Minor: Suicide
thesubwayreader's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Blood, and Toxic friendship
champa_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Addiction, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Suicide, Blood, and Alcohol
mkeesler's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Drug abuse and Suicide
kieranyes's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug use and Sexism
Moderate: Suicide
spaghettireads's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Suicide, Blood, and Medical trauma