"The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages." - USA Today "Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois." - New York magazine "You'll laugh, you'll cry.you're gonna love it." - Denver Post Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory. - USA Today "A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique." - Newsweek "Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois.

" - New York magazine "[Bourdain's] avalanche of colorful stories results in a goodly number of maxims to eat by; namely, never piss off the chef, lest he do the same on your mussels." - Esquire "Hysterical. in a style partaking of Hunter S. Thompson, Iggy Pop, and a little Jonathan Swift, Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors." - New York Times Book Review "Hysterical. Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors." - New York Times Book Review.