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Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

Bourdain's memoir from inside restaurant kitchens: the heat, the crews, the late nights, and the chaos behind the pass.

First published: 2000
Genre: Memoir
Status: On the nightstand

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, 25th anniversary edition cover

The shelf

Already on the shelf.

Pull a book off the shelf to see what it is about, and what I made of it.

Reading notes

These are only a few. For many of the authors below, I have read much of their other work, or the rest of the series, as well.

Then there are the ones who never made it onto the shelf at all: a great deal of Stephen King, Tolkien, Andy Weir, and the classics, from F. Scott Fitzgerald and Kurt Vonnegut to Alexandre Dumas and George Orwell.

I am drawn to novels that wrap themselves around philosophy, the kind that leave you with a question rather than an answer. But I will always have something fantasy, or simply a good piece of literature, on the go as well. One cannot live on Dostoevsky alone. Lately, though, I have been on something of a spiral into memoirs and autobiographies.

Right now I am making my way through Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive. Slowly. It is rather long.