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Written & audio book narrated by Anthony Bourdain - Unabridged Nonfiction - 7 COMPACT DISCS - 8 hours, 20 minutes

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (October 2005)

New York chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."

In 1999, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdain's first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnesses for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laugher. You'll beg the chef for more, please.

About the Author: Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. This is his first work of non-fiction. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.