A Man’s Man’s World
Steven Shapin: Kitchens, 30 November 2000
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain.
Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £16.99, August 2000,0 7475 5072 7 Show More
by Anthony Bourdain.
Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £16.99, August 2000,
“... show you the mess inside: the chefs, too, are spilling their beans. Kitchen Confidential records Anthony Bourdain’s progress from drug and sex-crazed plongeur at a modest Cape Cod seafood restaurant (fried clams and chips) to executive chef at Les Halles, a proletarian-chic Manhattan brasserie whose very name advertises its commitment to ‘authentic ... ”