Kitchen Confidential Deluxe Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

A new, deluxe edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain. The book will feature a brand new introduction, a Q&A with Ecco publisher and Bourdain’s long-time editor Daniel Halpern. Interior pages are hand-annotated by Anthony Bourdain himself. The interior will also feature a brand new drawing by Ralph Steadman.

Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat before You Read This,” by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business—this time with never-before-published material.

A new, deluxe edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain featuring a new introduction by Eric Ripert and an interview with Bourdain’s longtime editor. Interior pages are hand-annotated by Tony himself.

Almost two decades ago, The New Yorker published a now-infamous article, “Don’t Eat before You Read This,” by then little- known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now-classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print.

Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business—this time with never-before-published material.

“The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages.” - USA Today

“Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois.” - New York magazine

“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry...you’re gonna love it.” - Denver Post

Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory. - USA Today

“A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors.... Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique.” - Newsweek

“Bourdain’s prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois.” - New York magazine

“[Bourdain’s] avalanche of colorful stories results in a goodly number of maxims to eat by; namely, never piss off the chef, lest he do the same on your mussels.” - Esquire

“Hysterical... in a style partaking of Hunter S. Thompson, Iggy Pop, and a little Jonathan Swift, Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors.” - New York Times Book Review

“Hysterical.... Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors.” - New York Times Book Review