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Summary: Save your money, wait for the paperback
Review: The problem is that it seems to be touted as some kind of "expose" when in reality it's just an egotistic autobiography, with an annoying New York attitude to boot. There are entertaining moments, but not enough to justify the blurbs or the price.
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Summary: No more than interesting
Review: The cover blurbs seemed to me to tout this as some sort of "expose" of the restaurant industry. Instead, it's an autobiography. Entertaining, but no big deal. FWIW, I do agree with the author's opinion regarding truly useful knives in the kitchen.
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Summary: Kitchen Garbage
Review: If you like tabloid journalism, you'll love this twisted, self absorbed book.
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Summary: One of the funniest books I've ever read!
Review: After hearing his interview on NPR, I ordered Tony's book and had a smile on my face the entire time I read it! For the amatuer chefs at home, it will give you a glimpse into the mechanics of a resturant--and as a bonus, Tony also throws us some tricks of the trade. If you love food and take your cooking seriously, buy this book!
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Summary: Uneven, unedited, uncouth --undercooked
Review: As a (retired) chef I am not shocked nor scandalized as so manyreviewers apparently are about the inner workings of professionalkitchens. If that is why you want to read the book, you will receive a little titillation and learn that, yes, some kitchens are dirty and that, yes, some restaurants sell bad food at high prices to people who do not know any better. This book is, however, not particularly well-written nor well organized. The too few chapters which actually deal with cooking and behind the scene restaurant matters are fine, if a bit overwraught with expletives and sexual themes. There are a few words on knives and kitchen equipment and what it can be like cooking three hundred meals a night. The remainder - which unfortunately for me felt like the bulk - of the book concerns the author's involvement with drugs and a few sketches of people he worked with, some anonymously described.Mr. Bourdain may be a fine chef. He could have benefited from an editor who could help him tell his tale, and perhaps also caught the several typos sprinkled throughout the text.
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Summary: An Unseasoned Mess
Review: Don't quit your day job, Mr. Bourdain. While this book starts out promisingly, it quickly disintigrates into a sloppy mish-mash of memoir, back-stabbing, and bland cooking tips (use heavy pans! get a good knife!). Mostly, though, it's just the tale of a hack chef staring with deep love and fascination into his own dirty navel. Most of the reputed "tell-alls" of nasty habits in the restaurant biz were reported decades ago--with a lot more wit and style--by George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. If you want scandal, log on to the NYC Health Dept's restaurant reports. But unless you find Bourdain as fascinating as he finds himself,I'd skip this book.
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Summary: Good Grief.
Review: This book has given me a deeper appreciation of the wonders of good food. The smell, the look and the taste of well prepared food will be more enhanced after reading this Mr. Bourdain's descriptions. What the book has also given me is a determination NEVER to eat in any restaurant east of the Mississippi. (and west may be suspect,too) . I will certainly have a deeper appreciation of meals cooked at home.
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Summary: Must reading for any foodie
Review: I absolutely loved reading this book and could not put it down. My only regret is that it wasn't longer. I hope that Tony's two novels come back into print as I would like to read those as well. I wish the book had a glossary for some of the terms, ingredients and dishes that are mentioned that I had never heard of before. I look forward to the sequel! (Please write one Tony...)
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Summary: is it about his life.........or mine?
Review: hey fellow chefs, cooks and anyone else in this world of the RB. it's nice to know your not the only one who went through what we did to be what we are. "COOKS RULE"
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Summary: Hilarious but true
Review: This book made me laugh out loud at the antics of the writer, but it'll make anybody cringe at the thought that what he said was based on experience and not a wild imagination. It spares nobody and makes eating at home a definite option if you are too picky with whats in your food. A truly enjoyable book good for a lazy sunday spent outdoors.
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