shows, but he strikes me as a very authentic person who has exceedingly high standards and little patience for incompetence or laziness, yet is willing to go to the mat and mentor someone when he recognizes raw determination and talent.Īs with the other audiobooks I’ve reviewed, “Kitchen Confidential” wouldn’t have the same impact in printed form.
I’ve worked with some of the types of characters he describes in this book.īourdain writes in the coarse language of someone who has come up in a professional kitchen. Some of the stories are downright hilarious, and if I hadn’t worked at several different restaurants in the past, I’m not sure I would have believed them myself. I’ve always believed that everyone should work at both a retail establishment as well as in a restaurant at some point in their lives to learn how to treat one another better. The casual American restaurant-goer doesn’t see the fatalism, hard drugs, or the transiency of the workforce from the “front of the house” (the dining room side). The author warns us early on that he is going to tell the truth – the good, the bad, and the just plain beautiful.Īs the subtitle of the book states, this is an uncensored look into the culinary underbelly of American restaurants. “Kitchen Confidential” is one man’s odyssey through his career in the industry, from dishwasher to executive chef and television producer. “ Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the culinary underbelly” Audiobook
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