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1/2/05 at 7:15pm
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Hi Everyone, I am Ruth and just signed up for the group tonight. I was going to cruise through the different topics before posting but came across this one and it caught my attention.

I am currently reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. It is a very easy book to read. He tells of all the horrors to look for as a customer and what days to avoid certain produce. lol! :eek:

I am halfway through the book and will be sure to send a review when I am completely finished.

Ruth
www.lotsarecipes.com
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1/5/05 at 8:18am
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well first of all welcome aboard Ruth, hope you'll find yourself at home here. Speaking of Kitchen Confidential, this is a funny anecdote, I recently borrowed both Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour from the local library, now in my mind I figured I would the only person that would try to sign out both books at the same time, but when I had gone in to the library in the first week of December, to borrow the books, I found out how wrong I was, I had to reserve both titles and wait three weeks for them to come in, because someone else had both titles out at the same time.
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1/5/05 at 3:19pm
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Hi Ruth and welcome! When you've finished the book, you might be interested in looking at a discussion/bull session about the book that started a few years ago here at ChefTalk: http://www.cheftalkcafe.com/forums/s...light=bourdain

But be sure to tell us your take too. Since Bourdain's TV show has been out and we've all gotten a new (or confirmed) impression of him, I wonder if opinions about the book have changed. Personally, I found that the TV show made him seem less edgy and more of a pussycat. Feeling that way would probably affect how I'd read the book now.

Hey CoolJ! How've you been?

Emily

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1/8/05 at 12:23pm
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Hello!

I'm new here too! I read this book a while back and couldn't put it down. Very interesting indeed! I found him a bit of a "wally" and very puffed up with himself, but then, I enjoyed hating him!

When is the show on? Which cannel???
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1/8/05 at 12:56pm
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Hey a la carte, welcome to you too! :D

The show is called "A Cook's Tour." It's on the Food Network and here's a link: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_tb.
All of them are in rerun and it looks like they're playing at 4 a.m. on the East Coast :eek: so I hope you have a VCR.

Emily

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"If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener." -- J. C. Raulston, American Horticulturist

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1/13/05 at 2:21am
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this book has a deeper meaning to me. I went on a month long tour of the west half of Canada and bought this book in winnipeg. I can sit down and read a chapter and remember where i had parked my car to sleep in that night. I couldnt put it down either, i read 50 pages a day. great buy.
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2/8/05 at 8:07am
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:d

"Kitchen Condfidential" is one of my favorite books of all time. I bought it maybe two years ago, have borrowed it out several times to different people and have read it myself more times than I can remember. It may sound odd, but it's my feel good book. Whenever I get down about money or just having my back side handed to me after a not-so-good night, I just pick up K.C., read one chapter and everything seems okay. Maybe because Tony talks about the lows of lows, or maybe it's just a kindred spirit, so to say. Either way, to anyone thinking about joining the food world, and I have had a few friends who have thought about it, I give them that to read. I do explain "This isn't how it is everywhere, but it can be and sometimes boarders on it." One is still thinking on it.

"A brave man likes to feel the rain on his face." "Yeah, but a wise man knows when to get in out of the rain."

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4/13/05 at 2:25am
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Amazing book. I blew through it when I first read it. Funny thing is, I rarely read. I think it is a great book for anyone, particuarly if you are thinking about going into the restaurant world.
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1/11/08 at 9:55pm
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Absolutely sensational. The entire reason I've been looking to join a forum: I wanted someone to talk to about this book. So far, I've gotten to Big Foot :) And I went out and bought Nasty Bits, Cook's Tour and the Les Halles cookbook :) I may have mentioned at some point...I think I love him.

Curiosity is a virtue. Certainty is nearly always a dangerous vice.
- Tony Bourdain

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1/12/08 at 5:01am
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It's the best book I've ever read...it took me 3 days to finish it from start to finish and I was sitting at 4am and still reading it and then waking up at 6.30 am for Culinary school :).
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1/12/08 at 4:00pm
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shel
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1/12/08 at 6:27pm
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Second time around

I finished it at 3am last night...er this morning. I'm going back for round two. I can't believe how good it is.

Curiosity is a virtue. Certainty is nearly always a dangerous vice.
- Tony Bourdain

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1/13/08 at 1:29pm
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I wish to edit my reply on that to the best book I've ever read about the particular subject as I must admit reading Steinbeck or other litterature would be a tad better. Oh and I would also not like to be considered a person who has only read one book in my life, and laughing at me is mean Shel :blush:
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1/13/08 at 1:29pm
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Enjoyed it immensely.
Couldn't put it down.
As I read certain passages I kept thinking "was he standing behind me in some place I worked?".
If I haven't been through exactly what he has, I've been through similar situations.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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1/13/08 at 4:56pm
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Oh, I wasn't being mean. I thought you were just being facetious, and your comment cracked me up.

shel
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1/14/08 at 8:22pm
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Funny how things change. Read some of the posts from a few years back regarding this book. It caused some very heated discussions when it first came out. Lots of people against it or didn't believe a lot of the stories, or didn't want to believe. Time has kind of mellowed the impact this book has had, and I find most people now enjoy the book.

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1/29/08 at 8:33am
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my first real kitchen job was at this yacht club and the chef had a copy he loaned me , i tore through it in a day and it really turned me on to cooking for a living maybe it was that i was just 17 and impressionable but it did indeed make me more passionate about this whole industry because i kinda thought it was just where I was working that was like that. Ive bought and given away probably a dozen copies of this book in my life, recommended reading for sure
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1/31/08 at 4:41pm
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i have an audio book of it, which is basicly the book read by tony on a large collection of mp3s.
i might be able to upload it for those of you who don't have time to read it.

personally, i loved it.
i'm a musician, along with being a line cook.
i love reading rock star autobiographys (the dirt, slash's book, lemmy's book, ac/dc has a good one, etc), and this book really read exactly the same way.
sex, drugs, and cooking.
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2/4/08 at 1:42pm
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I love this book and was so happy when i received it. Anthony is the man
www.freewebs.com/creck01 the best cookbook for under $8
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