KitchenConfidentialPaperback

K I T C H E N CONFIDENTIAL ADVENTURES IN THE CULINARY UNDERBELLY ANTHONY BOURDAIN To Nancy CONTENTS APPETIZER A Note from the Chef FIRST COURSE Food Is Good Food Is Sex Food Is Pain Inside the CIA The Return of Mai Carne SECOND COURSE Who Cooks? From Our Kitchen to Your Table How to Cook Like the Pros Owner's Syndrome and Other Medical Anomalies Bigfoot THIRD COURSE I Make My Bones The Happy Timea Chef of the Future! Apocalypse Now The Wilderness Years What I Know About Meat Pino Noir: Tuscan Interlude DESSERT A Day in the Life Sous-Chef The Level of Discourse Other Bodies Adam Real-Last-Name-Unknown Department of Human Resources COFFEE AND A CIGARETTE The Life of Bryan Mission to Tokyo So You Want to Be a Chef? A Commencement Address Kitchen's Closed Acknowledgments A Note on the Author By the Same Author APPETIZER A NOTE FROM THE CHEF Don't get me wrong: I love the restaurant business. Hell, I'm still in the restaurant business — a lifetime, classically trained chef who, an hour from now, will probably be roasting bones for demi-glace and butchering beef tenderloins in a cellar prep kitchen on lo......