The updated edition of the wickedly funny and insightful bestseller filled with 25 years of sex, drugs, bad behavior, and haute cuisine, now includes three new chapters about the author's adventures since the book was originally published. An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, Don't Eat before You Read This, by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine--this time with never-before-published material. Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii APPETIZER A Note from the Chef 3 FIRST COURSE Food Is Good 9 Food Is Sex 19 Food Is Pain 25 Inside the CIA 36 The Return of Mal Carne 45 SECOND COURSE Who Cooks? 55 From Our Kitchen to Your Table 64 How to Cook Like the Pros 75 Owner's Syndrome and Other Medical Anomalies 84 Bigfoot 91 THIRD COURSE I Make My Bones 105 The Happy Time 120 Chef of the Future! 128 Apocalypse Now 134 The Wilderness Years 144 What I Know About Meat 153 Pino Noir: Tuscan Interlude 162 DESSERT A Day in the Life 181 Sous-Chef 204 The Level of Discourse 219 Other Bodies 227 Adam Real-Last-Name-Unknown 233 Department of Human Resources 243 COFFEE AND A CIGARETTE The Life of Bryan 251 Mission to Tokyo 267 So You Want to Be a Chef? A Commencement Address 288 Kitchen's Closed 295 Afterword 303