Authors: Anthony Bourdain
ISBN-13: 9781596913608, ISBN-10: 1596913606
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: May 2007
Edition: Reprint
Executive chef Anthony Bourdain grabbed the attention of diners everywhere with his revealing look at the restaurant biz, Kitchen Confidential. Along with hosting popular food shows on the Discovery Channel and the Food Network, Bourdain has also written several novels that have earned him a reputation as "a new master of the wiseass crime comedy" (Publishers Weekly).
In the multiweek New York Times bestseller The Nasty Bits, bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether surviving a lethal hot pot in Chengdu, splurging on New York's priciest sushi, or singing the praises of Ecuadorian line cooks and Hell's Kitchen dives, Bourdain is as provocative, engaging, and opinionated as ever. The Nasty Bits is an irresistible tasting menu of food writing at its outrageous bestserved up Bourdain style.
Bourdain is a vivid and witty writer, but his greatest gift is his ability to convey his passion for professional cooking "this thing of ours," he calls it, a touch melodramatically, in tribute to La Cosa Nostra. With one eye on the kitchen and the other on the dining room, he never loses sight of how the terrestrial inevitably informs the divine.
System D | 3 | |
The evildoers | 12 | |
A commencement address nobody asked for | 18 | |
Food and loathing in Las Vegas | 22 | |
Are you a crip or a blood? | 37 | |
Viva Mexico! Viva Ecuador! | 42 | |
Counter culture | 47 | |
A life of crime | 55 | |
Advanced courses | 64 | |
Name dropping down under | 69 | |
My Manhattan | 75 | |
Hard-core | 81 | |
When the cooking's over (turn out the lights, turn out the lights) | 86 | |
The cook's companions | 95 | |
China syndrome | 102 | |
No shoes | 106 | |
The love boat | 109 | |
Is celebrity killing the great chefs? | 125 | |
What you didn't want to know about making food television | 131 | |
Warning signs | 136 | |
Madness in Crescent City | 140 | |
A view from the fridge | 143 | |
Notes from the road | 149 | |
The dive | 154 | |
A drinking problem | 163 | |
Woody Harrelson : culinary muse | 166 | |
Is anybody home? | 171 | |
Bottoming out | 176 | |
Food terrorists | 179 | |
Sleaze gone by | 183 | |
Pure and uncut luxury | 191 | |
The hungry American | 195 | |
Decoding Ferran Adria | 203 | |
Brazilian beach-blanket bingo | 211 | |
The old, good stuff | 224 | |
Die, die must try | 231 | |
A chef's Christmas | 241 |