Rebooting Kitchen Culture With a Novel Concept: Sober Living

Food industry support groups encourage healthier lifestyles for restaurant workers

"...story of Anthony Bourdain's life – as told within Kitchen Confidential, his rollicking exposé of the restaurant industry's seedy..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Food Feature by Lina Fisher

Sweetbitter

by Stephanie Danler

"...cuisine: Danler is deliciously mixing genres here – the kitchen confidential with a bildungsroman about a naif in the..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Feature by Kimberley Jones

Top Shelf

Austin's latest offerings for a little kitchen reading

"...& Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Eating Between the Lines

Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking

"...Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony Bourdain..."

June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

TV Eye

The flirting has just begun. Yes, it's only the end of July, and yet the networks are already running promos for new shows that may not even premiere until late fall.

"...Kitchen Confidential (Fox): A great ensemble is led by Bradley..."

July 29, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

The life, passions, and shattering death of the traveler

"...habits, or his mental health struggles with addiction. The Kitchen Confidential author was cursed with a romanticized view of..."

July 16, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

With Medium Raw, the wit is dry, the humor is laugh-out-oud, the attacks sharp and well-honed

"...Ten years ago Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential shattered the culinary book scene with its funny..."

July 23, 2010 Food Feature by Mick Vann

TV Eye

Next week is a big week in network TV

"...Kitchen Confidential (Fox), Sept. 19 at 7:30pm: The excruciatingly charming..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Tube Temptations

Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture

"...chef and author Anthony Bourdain from his bestselling memoir Kitchen Confidential. Now, Bourdain hits the small screen in a..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

"...5. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain..."

July 13, 2001 Books Column

In Print

An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

"...Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and..."

July 28, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

A Reading List for Aspiring Chefs

"...Includes hard-to-find information about career options outside the restaurant kitchen. Also contains a helpful section on determining if you..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love, and Death in the Kitchen

Sheehan knows how to weave a good story while still being brutally honest about himself

"...Story of Life, Sex, Love, and Death in the Kitchenby Jason Sheehan Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 368 pp., $26..."

May 29, 2009 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Food-o-File

Why the Chronicle Food editor loves Anthony Bourdain and a new foodie movie

"...wild machinations make you cringe, if you found 1999's Kitchen Confidential wildly entertaining and you're wondering what chef/author Anthony..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Can She Take the Heat?

Culinary pros discuss gender inequities

"...Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen (Rutgers Press, 231 pp., $27.95)...."

Sept. 3, 2015 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Dinner Partier

Anthony Bourdain comes back to Austin

"...Fox canceled that god-awful show based on you and Kitchen Confidential? Hopefully you were paid up front!..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Food-o-File

More food on TV, openings across Austin, and wine flowing in the streets

"...food TV bonanza, on May 30 Fox premiered Hell's Kitchen, with frequently bleeped British chef Gordon Ramsay heaping verbal..."

June 3, 2005 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Our Dinner With Tony

Wes Marshall and Mick Vann do dinner with a worldly renegade chef.

"...Anthony Bourdain was coming to town. The brilliant writer (Kitchen Confidential, A Cook's Tour), world traveler, chef and bon..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Eastside Oases

Two Austin Cafes that seem more like hideaways

"...A few years back, Bourdain wrote the best-selling Kitchen Confidential (Bloomsbury, $14), a tell-all tome exposing the underbelly..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Food-o-File

Anthony Bourdain is a hot literary dish, Rosa Salas, whose salsa was a huge hit at the recent Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, is already serving her concoction at a local restaurant, and the details on learning how the ancients ate.

"...firsthand how pleasing her artwork can be around the kitchen...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Counter Culture Is Closing and Rents Are Rising, Brunch Is Opening at Asti and Maie Day and Side Eye and Pretty Much Everywhere In Town, Gift Guides Are Clamoring For Your Hard-Earned Spondulics, and OMG What Is This Armadillo Rangoon?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...circling the drain, as Anthony Bourdain noted in his Kitchen Confidential; no, it’s more like a move from power,..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW: Anthony Bourdain

“I’ll go back to brunch, motherfucker. I don’t care.”

"...that his past, on display in his best-selling memoir Kitchen Confidential, actually led to his success, saying that he’s..."

March 14, 2016 SXSW Post by Kahron Spearman

Cooking in Context

A conduit for civilization, culture, and technology

"...restaurant cooks of my generation the way Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential eventually would more recent up-and-comers; and Diana Kennedy’s..."

Oct. 17, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Yes, Chef: A Memoir

Confessions of cosmopolitan chef Marcus Samuelsson

"...Ever since Kitchen Confidential, the reading public has developed a taste for..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

NFL Analysis 101: 100 Years of Epicurean, Hedonistic Hound Dogs

Timothy Braun brings you, dear reader, up to date on the AFC North

"...grab Florida A&M's Daniel Parrish. Cincinnati Bengals Printed Comparison: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Epicurean, hedonistic criminals are at..."

April 4, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Gratuitous Advice, Rants, and Revelations

"...of your time. Lastly, if you still haven't read Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Food Feature by Mick Vann

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta got touched by a TV

"...And Bourdain's TV series are iterations of his books (Kitchen Confidential, A Cook's Tour) recounting his ongoing obsessions with..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

World Wide Menu

Accessing all things culinary on the Internet

"...Their site explains the justification by quoting Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential: "I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table

"...a professional cook put her at ease in chefs' kitchens and further informed her writing about their work. Along..."

June 8, 2001 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

Managing Secrets

Council's search for city manager may be confidential ... or not

"...seems to be wavering about its commitment to full confidentiality...."

April 10, 2017 News Post by Michael King

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