![]() He begins to enjoy the hearty country staples of French provincial cooking. When they arrive in France, Bourdain is initially unimpressed with French food until his parents, tired of his complaining, leave him and his brother in the car while they enjoy a sumptuous meal at the famous La Pyramide, leading Bourdain to think that food could be important as well as enjoyable. This is the first food he remembers actually enjoying. As a child, he was served Vichyssoise, a cold soup, while traveling on the Queen Mary with his family heading for a vacation in France. After a brief introduction in which he asserts his memoir is not intended as revenge, as he loves cooking and working as a chef, Bourdain reflects on his introduction to cooking as opposed to simply eating. ![]() Celebrated as a bracingly honest and well-written exposé of how the New York restaurant industry operates, it offers both salacious gossip about the lifestyles of professional chefs and practical advice for diners concerning the manipulative tactics restaurants often use. ![]() Kitchen Confidential (2000), a memoir by chef Anthony Bourdain, is based on the essay Don’t Eat Before Reading This published in The New Yorker in 1999. ![]()
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