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Anthony Bourdain’s death by suicide in June, 2018 shocked people around the world. Bourdain seemed to have it all: an irresistible personality, a dream job, a beautiful family, and international fame. The reality, though, was more complicated than it seemed. Bourdain became a celebrity with his bestselling book Kitchen Confidential. He parlayed it into a series of hit television shows, including the Food Channel’s Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations...
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Get the Summary of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" chronicles his journey from a rebellious youth intrigued by food to a seasoned chef navigating the culinary world's highs and lows. His passion ignited by experiences in France and aboard the Queen Mary, Bourdain's career began in Provincetown's chaotic kitchens, leading to his...
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#1 The Warren family, who were the first victims of the typhoid outbreak, were not the type of people who were typically thought to get the disease. They were a wealthy family who could afford to rent a nice summer house on Long Island.
#2 Soper began to walk the cat backward, searching for an answer. The only new element introduced into the household was a cook, who...
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#1 When I wrote Kitchen Confidential, I was supremely naive about many things, such as the fact that people seemed to love chefs on the Food Network. I took it as an article of faith that chefs were unlovable.
#2 I was working on a book that made fun of the Food Network, and I was invited to appear on several shows. I was still cooking every day and night, but I was...
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Hachette Books
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2021.
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"In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come close to filling the void he left. His passion for and genuine interest in the cultures he visited made the world feel smaller and more knowable. Despite his affable, sometimesarch TV persona, the real Tony was intensely private, deeply conflicted about his fame, and an enigma even to those close to him-except for the crew following him around the world. And almost no one...
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#1 I informed my boss of my plans to eat my way around the world, and he called his mother in Portugal and told her to start fattening a pig. I was going to eat everything, blood, guts, and all, during my trip to Portugal.
#2 I had never been to a farm and watched as the animals were slaughtered, disemboweled, and broken down into constituent parts. It was only fair...
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Hungry Ghosts volume 1
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Hungry Ghosts is cooked up by the best-selling author and veteran chef, Anthony Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential, Emmy-Award winning TV star of Parts Unknown) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster) back again from their New York Times #1 best seller, Get Jiro! Featuring real recipes cooked up by Bourdain himself, this horror anthology is sure to please--and scare!
On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of...
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#1 Buenos Aires has two airports, Ministro Pistarini International, which is fourteen miles from the center of Buenos Aires, and Jorge Newbury Airfield, which is just a mile and a half from the downtown area.
#2 Tony enjoyed the unassuming family-run joint across from La Bombonera stadium, Bodegón Don Carlos, which was owned and run by Juan Carlos Zinola since 1970.
#3...
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Melville House
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2019
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The New York Times The New YorkerAnthony Bourdain always downplayed his skills as a chef (many disagreed). But despite his modesty, one thing even he agreed with was that he was a born raconteur—as he makes clear in this collection of sparkling conversations. His wit, passion, and deep intelligence shine through all manner of discussion here, from heart-to-hearts with bloggers, to on-stage talks before massive crowds, to intense interviews with...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2018
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-- Kitchen ConfidentialParts Unknown Bourdain teaches you everything you need to know to prepare classic French bistro fare. While you're being guided, in simple steps, through recipes like roasted veal short ribs and steak frites, escargots aux noix and foie gras au pruneaux, you'll feel like he's in the kitchen beside you-reeling off a few insults when you've scorched the sauce, and then patting you on the back for finally getting the steak tartare...
12) A Moveable Feast
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From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishes us not only physically, but intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually too. It can be a gift that enables a traveler to survive, a doorway into the heart of a tribe, or a thread that weaves an indelible tie; it can be awful or ambrosial - and sometimes...
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"When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death. Now, for the first time, we have been granted a look into Bourdain's life through the stories and recollections of his...
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"Anthony Bourdain is man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he' cooking, it' for family and friends. Appetites, his first cookbook in more than ten years, boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a tight repertoire...
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"From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time. 'I read everything he writes. Every time he writes abook, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure.' - Rachel Maddow. Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the...
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