Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (P.S.)
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Book Info
Author
Bourdain, Anthony
Word Count
80,000 words
based on page count
Pages
320 pages
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Edition Publisher
Ecco
Edition Publish Date
2011-05-03
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0061718955
ISBN-13: 9780061718953
Description
The Long-awaited Follow-up To The Megabestseller kitchen Confidential
In The Ten Years Since His Classic kitchen Confidential First Alerted Us To The Idiosyncrasies And Lurking Perils Of Eating Out, From Monday Fish To The Breadbasket Conspiracy, Much Has Changed For The Subculture Of Chefs And Cooks, For The Restaurant Businessand 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-traveling Professional Eater And Drinker, And Even To Fatherhood, Bourdain Takes No Prisoners As He Dissects What He's Seen, Pausing Along The Way For A Series Of Confessions, Rants, Investigations, And Interrogations Of Some Of The Most Controversial Figures In Food.
beginning With A Secret And Highly Illegal After-hours Gathering Of Powerful Chefs That He Compares To A Mafia Summit, Bourdain Pulls Back The Curtainbut Never Pulls His Puncheson The Modern Gastronomical Revolution, As Only He Can. Cutting Right To The Bone, Bourdain Sets His Sights On Some Of The Biggest Names In The Foodie World, Including David Chang, The Young Superstar Chef Who Has Radicalized The Fine-dining Landscape; The Revered Alice Waters, Whom He Treats With Unapologetic Frankness; The top Chef Winners And Losers; And Many More.
and Always He Returns To The Question Why Cook? Or The More Difficult Why Cook Well? medium Raw Is The Deliciously Funny And Shockingly Delectable Journey To Those Answers, Sure To Delight Philistines And Gourmands Alike.
the Washington Post - Michael Dirda
…bourdain's Prose At His Wildest Can Sound Like Hunter S. Thompson's, Yet He Can Also Produce Much Quieter Work, Such As My Aim Is True, A Brilliant Portrait Of Justo Thomas, The Man Who Fillets The Fish For Le Bernardin, New York's Great Seafood Restaurant. A.j. Liebling Couldn't Have Done It Better. Above All, When You Read Bourdain, You Never Quite Know What's Going To Happen In The Next Sentence, But You Can Be Sure You're In For A Treat, A Shock, A Surprise…anyone Who Starts The Book Is Liable To Lose All Control And Simply Gobble It Right Up. I Certainly Did.
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