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About the Author

Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, in addition to the mega-bestseller Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour. He is the host of the popular television show No Reservations.

Praise for Kitchen Confidential, Insider's Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly…

“Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois.”
-New York magazine

“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry...you’re gonna love it.”
-Denver Post

“The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages.”
-USA Today

Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory.
-USA Today

A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique.
-Newsweek

Bourdain’s prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois.
-New York magazine

Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors.
-New York Times Book Review