Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
First U.S. edition, third printing, of Bourdain’s breakthrough memoir, the book that carried him from New York restaurant kitchens to international prominence. Boldy signed by Bourdain to the title page. Written with corrosive humor and hard-earned authority, Kitchen Confidential exposed the culture, personalities, appetites, and excesses of professional cooking and transformed contemporary food writing. Increasingly scarce signed.
New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2000. Publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in red, in the original photographic dust jacket, priced $24.95 on the front flap; pp. x, 307, [3]. Book near fine, with slight pushing and wear at the spine ends and minor rubbing along the board edges. Dust jacket also about near fine, showing light sheflfwear and rubbing, protected in archival mylar. Very presentable.
