BOURDAIN, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential. Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Signed first edition)

New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First Edition, first print with full number line “10 9 8 7 6” on the copyright page and the correct Bloomsbury imprint.. Octavo. pp. [vi], 307. Publisher’s black cloth-backed boards, red lettering to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket depicting the author at Les Halles. Together with an original Food Network bookplate for A Cook’s Tour, signed by Anthony Bourdain in bold black marker. Previous trade price in black pen.  A very good copy in very good dust-jacket.

Bourdain’s breakthrough memoir is the book that transformed him from a downtown New York chef into an international voice for culinary authenticity. Written in his inimitably raw, candid prose, Kitchen Confidential exposes the chaotic inner workings of restaurant kitchens—equal parts confession, satire, and cultural critique.

Provenance: Signed promotional A Cook’s Tour bookplate laid in, bearing Bourdain’s large, characteristic autograph in black marker.

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