Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential
We thought it only appropriate that our inaugural post pay homage to the dark knight himself. The Keith Richards of the culinary world, Chef Anthony Bourdain. Before Chef Bourdain’s classic expose “Kitchen Confidential” most of us thought chefs were all classically trained savants spending their free time jetting across the globe finding the best source for truffles or touring the French countryside unearthing culinary secrets.
It was Chef Bourdaine that filled us in on a little known and well kept secret. The guy who cooked your $80.00 Peter Luger chop is more likely to have crossed over from Guatemala than attended the Cordon Bleu. He portrays the cooks in his biography more as a band of over worked hard partying misfit pirates than the pedigreed prima donnas we all envisioned, and that is just fine by me. Because in the end it is all about good food and that is what Chef Bourdaine is all about. [Anthony Bourdains Blog][Find the Book]
