Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition by Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition by Anthony Bourdain

A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts

Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat Before Reading This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now iconic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation and megabestseller. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.

Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade, laying out Bourdain's more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine. Including a handwritten introduction and annotations done by Bourdain about a decade after the book was originally published, this edition also features previously unpublished photos to accompany the now-classic text. 

Anthony Bourdain was the author of the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and Appetites, as well as the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, the biography A Cook's Tour, and the memoir A Cook's Tour. The New York Times and The New Yorker published his writing. He was the host of No Reservations and Parts Unknown, two successful television programmes. Bourdain passed away in June of this year.