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Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, offered here in the 2013 Bloomsbury Insider’s Edition. This softcover has ISBN 978-1-4088-4504-2 and a complete number line indicating the first printing of this particular paperback edition. The Insider’s Edition is a distinctive annotated format featuring reproduced handwritten footnotes, underlining, sketches, and afterthoughts integrated throughout the book.
Bourdain’s candid culinary memoir takes readers behind restaurant doors into the demanding, chaotic, and tightly knit world of professional kitchens. Combining personal history with an unsparing account of kitchen culture, it became the book most closely associated with his emergence as a major food and travel writer.
This copy is personally inscribed to Patrick and signed by Anthony Bourdain in broad black marker, with additional wording and an expansive flourish or sketch. An Ensemble Travel Group International Conference label dated October 25–29, 2015 appears on the signed page. The exact wording beyond the recipient’s name is partly difficult to decipher, so prospective buyers should inspect the close-up photograph carefully.
Very Good overall, with light handling or shelf wear consistent with a previously owned softcover. It is now protected by removable clear plastic. The handwritten-style footnotes, circles, underlining, and afterthoughts visible inside are intentional reproduced features of the Insider’s Edition and should not be mistaken for ordinary reader markings. Please review all photographs closely, as they form an important part of the description.
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Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, offered here in the 2013 Bloomsbury Insider’s Edition. This softcover has ISBN 978-1-4088-4504-2 and a complete number line indicating the first printing of this particular paperback edition. The Insider’s Edition is a distinctive annotated format featuring reproduced handwritten footnotes, underlining, sketches, and afterthoughts integrated throughout the book.
Bourdain’s candid culinary memoir takes readers behind restaurant doors into the demanding, chaotic, and tightly knit world of professional kitchens. Combining personal history with an unsparing account of kitchen culture, it became the book most closely associated with his emergence as a major food and travel writer.
This copy is personally inscribed to Patrick and signed by Anthony Bourdain in broad black marker, with additional wording and an expansive flourish or sketch. An Ensemble Travel Group International Conference label dated October 25–29, 2015 appears on the signed page. The exact wording beyond the recipient’s name is partly difficult to decipher, so prospective buyers should inspect the close-up photograph carefully.
Very Good overall, with light handling or shelf wear consistent with a previously owned softcover. It is now protected by removable clear plastic. The handwritten-style footnotes, circles, underlining, and afterthoughts visible inside are intentional reproduced features of the Insider’s Edition and should not be mistaken for ordinary reader markings. Please review all photographs closely, as they form an important part of the description.
