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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
4.8/5
Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is the professional memoir and industry exposé that turned a then little-known New York chef into a household name — a New York Times bestseller, first published in 2000, that remains one of the most celebrated books ever written about life inside restaurant kitchens.
Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
4.8/5
Co-authored by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever and published by Ecco in October 2016, Appetites is a tightly curated cookbook that distils more than forty years of professional cooking and global travel into a personal repertoire of dishes Bourdain believed every home cook should master. This review assesses the book's content, structure, and reception from published sources — not a kitchen test.
Reviewed Mar 19, 2026
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