Kitchen confidential

What it’s about: You know him from Top Chef, No Reservations, and ABC’s under-the-radar but completely compelling new show The Taste, but Anthony Bourdain is more than just a blowhard with a penchant for being kind of a dick. The first half of this is your standard narrative of how he came to love and appreciate food, but the best part about this is the second half, full of juicy, insider-y secrets about cooking as a profession.Best enjoyed with: seafood from your favorite restaurant, but…

Chef Eric Ripert's autographed copy of Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential with Bourdain's notes on the importance of being on time and his sigunature chef's knife sign-off.

If you're a regular visitor to Champagne Living, you know that I'm a huge fan of Tony Bourdain. We've been lucky enough to have a great relationship with the Travel Channel that has allowed us to preview Tony's show (during his regular season) before they're released - so that YOU can have a SNEAK PEAK

Annotated notes by Tony Bourdain for Eric Ripert's copy of Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential

He began his career as a chef and ended his life an icon.

Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition : Bourdain, Anthony: Amazon.ca: Books

From Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Fair warning: I've read this, and it's pretty intense. From the publisher: "Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."

Anthony Bourdain, who died at 61, was one of our greatest storytellers.

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