The long-awaited follow-up to the megabestseller Kitchen
Confidential
In the ten years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first
alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out,
from Monday fish to the breadbasket conspiracy, much has changed
for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant
business--and for Anthony Bourdain.
Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from
the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange
and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling
professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain
takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the
way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and
interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in
food.
Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering
of powerful chefs that he compares to a mafia summit, Bourdain
pulls back the curtain--but never pulls his punches--on the modern
gastronomical revolution, as only he can. Cutting right to the
bone, Bourdain sets his sights on some of the biggest names in the
foodie world, including David Chang, the young superstar chef who
has radicalized the fine-dining landscape; the revered Alice
Waters, whom he treats with unapologetic frankness; the Top Chef
winners and losers; and many more.
And always he returns to the question "Why cook?" Or the more
difficult "Why cook well?" Medium Raw is the deliciously funny and
shockingly delectable journey to those answers, sure to delight
philistines and gourmands alike.
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