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Kitchen confidential motivated by his embarrassing experience at marios kitchen, bourdain decided to apply to the culinary institute of america in hyde park, new york. Medium raw marks the return of the inimitable anthony bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller kitchen confidential and threetime emmy awardnominated host of no reservations on tvs travel channel. Full text of anthony bourdain kitchen confidential internet archive. Anthony bourdains kitchen confidential becomes amazon top seller. When kitchen confidential was first published 18 years ago, the times gave it a rave, saying that bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors little. Though in the book hes writing with the brashness of someone who knows everything, i wonder how much of the experience of these styles of kitchens only apply in new york city.
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