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Chef Anthony Bourdain's memoir of more than twenty-five years in the trade, told from inside restaurant kitchens. It follows his life from the first oyster he tried in the Gironde and his job washing dishes at a seafood restaurant in Provincetown, where he decided to become a cook, to New York's Rainbow Room, with stops in Tokyo and Paris.

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Who it's for
For anyone curious about how a professional kitchen really works, told with humour and no shame, and for food lovers or fans of shows like The Bear. There are drugs and rough language. This is the 25th-anniversary edition, with an introduction by Irvine Welsh.
Why people still read it
It has become a classic of food memoirs: Ferran Adrià said nobody had described life inside kitchens in this way, and the publisher is reissuing it for its 25th anniversary.

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