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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Bourdain, Anthony
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 158234082X
- ISBN 13
- 9781582340821
- Seller
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Lewisville, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bloomsbury, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Later Printing. A solid tight copy. This copy has some slight lean, light soil to the edges of the text block. The priced jacket has some light rubbing, light edge wear, several creases to the front flap. If this copy was in fact signed by Bourdain it was not signed by Bourdain with his usual crazy wild signature usually applied with a sharpie. This copy has a full page inscription with a ball point that seems to have some thought behind it...possibly to a friend????. Dear Kathy Bon Appetité (Appetite?), I hope this culinary vignettes are tasty & to your liking. Love Tony and dated by the author 25 Aug 2000 Providence, RI To me it seems awful wordy to be a forgery but who knows...maybe it is. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. .
Synopsis
A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors. Published in 2000 by Bloomsbury, Kitchen Confidential was Bourdain’s memoir and behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens, a follow-up to his popular and shocking article published the April 19th 1999 edition of The New Yorker titled "Don't Eat Before Reading This." The book is both a personal confessional, including stories of Bourdain’s misdeeds and weaknesses, including his drug use, and an industry commentary, divulging money-saving secrets of restaurants and things for consumers to avoid. Bourdain called the book "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Anthony Bourdain is the author of multiple books about cooking and food including the follow-up to Kitchen Confidential -
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- Bookseller
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047710
- Title
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- Author
- Bourdain, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 158234082X
- ISBN 13
- 9781582340821
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
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Pat Cramer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Lewisville, Texas
About Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
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