Books by Anthony Bourdain and Complete Book Reviews
Anthony Bourdain, Author . Bloomsbury $19.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-58234-233-7
With the same explosive energy and irreverent humor with which he described the behind-the-scenes affairs of the restaurant industry in Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain revisits some of the themes that made him famous: passion, food and violence. The...
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Anthony Bourdain, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-58234-451-5
In this typically bold effort, Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential
), like the fine chef he is, pulls together an entertaining feast from the detritus of his years of cooking and traveling. Arranged around the basic tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and
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Anthony Bourdain, Author . Bloomsbury $34.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59691-447-6
The in-your-face, hard-boiled chef Bourdain (Kitchen Confidential
) delivers another entertaining look at the best and worst places around the world in which to eat. While the book shares a title with Bourdain's popular television show, it...
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Anthony Bourdain, Author Bloomsbury Publishing Limited $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-58234-082-1
Chef at New York's Les Halles and author of Bone in the Throat, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. His fast-lane personality and glee in recounting sophomoric kitchen pranks might be unbearable were it...
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Anthony Bourdain, Author Harper Perennial $14.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-001278-6
In this paperback reprint, swashbuckling chef Anthony Bourdain, author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential (which famously warned restaurant-goers against ordering fish on Mondays), travels where few foodies have thought to travel before in...
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Anthony Bourdain, Author Villard Books $20 (290p) ISBN 978-0-679-43552-5
First-time author Bourdain presents a savory portion of gangster tartare spiced with salty mobspeak, coked-up chefs, wild entrepreneurs and foul-mouthed feds, served up in the colorful ambience of Manhattan's Little Italy. The FBI is using a former...
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Anthony Bourdain, Author Villard Books $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-44880-8
Following his hilarious first novel, Bone in the Throat, with another antic tale, Bourdain establishes himself as a new master of the wiseass crime comedy. Henri Denard, an ex-Vietnam War hero who was trained as an assassin by the CIA and is now...
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Anthony Bourdain. Ecco, $37.50 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-240995-9
Kitchen Confidential author and TV host Bourdain already appeased fans with 2004’s Les Halles Cookbook, in which he revisited many of the dishes he prepared there. But in what might be his most accessible book yet, Bourdain reveals his “Ina Garten–li
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Anthony Bourdain, Author, Jose de Meirelles, With, Philippe Lajaunie, With . Bloomsbury $34.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-58234-180-4
A celebrity with a high-profile position as executive chef at New York bistro Les Halles, and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential
and A Cook's Tour
, Bourdain doesn't intend to break new ground. The dishes do exactly as the subtitle...
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Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose, and Langdon Foss. DC/Vertigo, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-401228-27-9
Chef Jiro wants nothing more than to serve traditionally crafted sushi to humble and respectful diners. But his extraordinary skills eventually attract the wrong kind of attention when the heads of two cutthroat rival food empires, one that embodies
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Anthony Bourdain et al. Dark Horse/Berger, $14.88 (128p) ISBN 978-1-5067-0669-6
Structured as an old-fashioned Tales from the Crypt–style horror anthology, complete with a frame story and ghoulish host, the twist to Bourdain’s slim, last known comics work is that these offerings are all food-themed—and all variations on yarns...
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Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever. Ecco, $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-280279-8
Woolever, longtime cowriter with the late Bourdain (1956–2018), knits together an impressive food-obsessed travel guide based on her conversations with Bourdain. Flitting from Argentina to Bourdain’s beloved Vietnam, the narrative captures Bourdain’s
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