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Anthony Bourdain

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

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A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential — for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he's seen and what he's seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: 'Why cook?' Or the harder one to answer: 'Why cook well?' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.
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333 printed pages
Publication year
2010
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  • Валентина Михееваshared an impression6 years ago

    Скорее не книга, а сборник эссе на несколько не всегда связанных между собой тем: как он дошел до жизни такой, чтобы было, если бы не случилось то, что с ним случилось, пара завуалированных и множество нескрываемых факов индустрии. Будем неинтересно всем, кто не читал kitchen confidential, кто хоть чуть-чуть не интересуется миром современного fine dining.
    Многие вещи десятилетней давности как калька ложатся на российское ресторанное здесь и сейчас.

Quotes

  • Oxana Iatcenkohas quoted8 months ago
    n the America not ruled by the imperative to buy and sell cheap ground meat, however, something has been happening to my beloved hamburger, something about which I have mixed emotions.
  • Oxana Iatcenkohas quoted8 months ago
    Had I not taken a dead-end dishwashing job while on summer vacation, I would not have become a cook. Had I not become a cook, I would never and could never have become a chef. Had I not become a chef, I never would have been able to fuck up so spectacularly. Had I not known what it was like to fuck up—really fuck up—and spend years cooking brunches in bullshit no-star joints around town, that obnoxious but wildly successful memoir I wrote wouldn’t have been half as interesting.
    Because—just
  • Oxana Iatcenkohas quoted8 months ago
    So it’s never just business. It’s always, always, personal.

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