New Releases by Anthony Bourdain

Grazie al successo di Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain non è più vincolato al lavoro in cucina. Ora è uno scrittore. Viaggia, collabora con vari giornali e conduce un programma televisivo di “travel cooking” per Discovery Channel. In questa raccolta di articoli comparsi su riviste quali “Gourmet” e “Rolling Stone” e su quotidiani come il “Los Angeles Times”, Bourdain guarda il mondo da questa sua nuova situazione di “esiliato” dalle cucine. Gran parte degli articoli è sui toni di Kitchen Confidential: la fauna di desperados multietnici che popola le cucine di New York, le bevute dopo il turno serale, le atmosfere chiassose e sanguigne, l’epico attaccamento dei cuochi alla loro vita sfasata. Gli scritti sulle cucine di New Mothafuckin’ York City sono quelli in cui Bourdain dà il meglio di sé: si va dalla guida ai migliori deli di New York, con tanto di indirizzo, descrizione dei piatti e del servizio; all’elogio dell’immigrazione clandestina, di messicani, ecuadoriani e caraibici, che fornisce così tante valide braccia al mondo della ristorazione, molto meglio degli studentelli bianchi, freschi di scuola professionale; alla spiegazione del gergo di cucina. Il resto del libro è ispirato alle trasferte negli Usa e nel resto del mondo con la troupe di Discovery Channel al seguito. C’è la visita alle cucine dei grandi alberghi di Las Vegas; le speziate incursioni cajun a New Orleans; la scena raccapricciante degli Inuit che sbranano una foca, cruda, nella Baia di Hudson; la trasferta in Sicilia; le sublimi bettole a conduzione familiare di Hanoi; il compianto per l’imbastardimento dei pub londinesi; l’incontro con il genio culinario catalano di Ferràn Adrià.La grandezza di Bourdain sta nell’aver fatto piazza pulita di tutte le convenzioni che inquinano l’edulcorata letteratura enogastronomica. In un grande esercizio di realismo, Bourdain dice le cose come stanno, parla come parlano i cuochi, sprezzante, ironico, gaudente, adrenalinico, raffinato, sensuale. .

From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, this wonderful book sees Bourdain travelling the world discovering exotic foods. Dodging minefields in Cambodia, diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world over in search of the ultimate meal. The only thing Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling, and A Cook''s Tour is the shotgun marriage of his two greatest passions. Inspired by the question, ''What would be the perfect meal?'', Anthony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail. Our adventurous chef starts out in Japan, where he eats traditional Fugu, a poisonous blowfish which can be prepared only by specially licensed chefs. He then travels to Cambodia, up the mine-studded road to Pailin into autonomous Khmer Rouge territory and to Phnom Penh''s Gun Club, where local fare is served up alongside a menu of available firearms. In Saigon, he''s treated to a sustaining meal of live Cobra heart before moving on to savor a snack with the Viet Cong in the Mecong Delta. Further west, Kitchen Confidential fans will recognize the Gironde of Tony''s youth, the first stop on his European itinerary. And from France, it''s on to Portugal, where an entire village has been fattening a pig for months in anticipation of his arrival. And we''re only halfway around the globe. . . A Cook''s Tour recounts, in Bourdain''s inimitable style, the adventures and misadventures of America''s favorite chef.

Anthony Bourdain''s long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide bestseller.

New York Times Bestseller The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style. Bestselling chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn''t want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever. Bringing together the best of his previously uncollected nonfiction--and including new, never-before-published material--The Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike.

From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, a crime novel about a lovable criminal, a fabulous cook, and a botched robbery that sets the pair on the run. After doing ten years in the clinker, Bobby Gold out and ready for work. With not even an attempt to play it straight, he''s back to breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant racket. It''s not that he enjoys the job-Bobby has real heart-but he''s good at it and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can''t stay away. Bobby Gold had known trouble before, but with Nikki the sauté bitch in his life, things take a turn for life or death. A fast, furious, pitch-perfect story of food, sex, crime, and mayhem, The Bobby Gold Stories is Bourdain at his best.

Until a few weeks ago, Richard Stringer was the best cook in New York City - not to mention one of the best-known reality stars on television and, according to People magazine, one of the country''s "Most Eligible Bachelors." Now, thanks to the slick maneuverings of his former partner, his reputation is in flames, and he has no restaurant, no girlfriend, and a subpoena awaiting him everywhere he turns. When Richard disappears to St. Barts, hiding out on the beach and cooking Eggs Benedict for hungover cruise boat tourists, he thinks he''s safe at last. Then a local hit-and-run sends everything hurtling toward chaos, as Stringer''s life becomes dangerously, hilariously intertwined with a retired hit man who will do anything to stay undercover and a former novelist desperate for redemption.

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

The host of the Travel Channel series "No Reservations" provides a behind-the-scenes account of his global culinary adventures, from New Jersey to New Zealand, offering commentary on food in every corner of the globe.

Escritor y cocinero, Bourdain no tiene pelos en la lengua a la hora de explicar todo lo que pasa tras la puerta de la cocina. En este libro delicioso y divertido, el autor es fiel a su premisa de que "para mí, la comida siempre ha sido una aventura", y acompaña el lector a través de una vida llena de anécdotas: desde sus modestos inicios trabajando como lavaplatos en un bar de Provincetown hasta la cocina del Rainbow Room en el Rockefeller Center o los traficantes de droga del East Village.

Der weltberühmte Koch serviert einen höllisch scharfen Eintopf aus Kolumnen, Geschichten und Reiseerlebnissen. Wie immer nimmt er kein Blatt vor den Mund und würzt seine Gerichte mit beißendem Humor, prickelnder Erotik und haarsträubenden Abenteuern. Ein

New York City chef/author Anthony Bourdain is invited to film the research laboratory of Ferran Adria, the most controversial and imitated chef in the world—chef/owner of El Bulli, voted "World''s Best" by Restaurant Magazine and the most visited by chefs on sabbatical. The lab, an ultra modern, Dr. No-like facility with sliding walls, backlit ingredients, latest equipment and a full staff of devotees is tucked away inside a vast, renaissance-era palace in the old section of Barcelona, Spain. Adria and his chefs close the El Bulli restaurant for six months out of ever year to work on new concepts. Bourdain tracks Ferran''s process from lab to a once-in-a-lifetime meal at El Bulli restaurant, enjoying a high-concept, surrealist, haute cuisine meal of unparalleled creativity and striking visual appearance.

Provides a collection of French bistro style recipes, including lobster bisque, coq au vin, and a warm potato and goat cheese tart.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly After twenty-five years of ''sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine'', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain''s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny. A Cook''s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal Bourdain sets off to eat his way around the world. But this was never going to be a conventional culinary tour. He heads to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, and travels into Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia. He also dines with gangsters in Russia, finds a medieval pig slaughter and feast in Portugal, and returns to the fishing village where he first ate oysters as a child. Written with his inimitable machismo and humour, this is an adventure story sure to give you indigestion.

Cuisine & Confidences est l''autobiographie culinaire du chef le plus rock''n''roll de New York. Cuisiniers psychotiques, plongeurs alcooliques et chefs obsédés de chair fraîche : les coulisses de ce monde de toqués laissent bouche bée et gorge sèche. Amoureux fou de son métier, Anthony Bourdain parle avec ferveur mais sans complaisance de la cuisine. Avec un humour bien pimenté et des anecdotes aux petits oignons, il prend plaisir à semer le trouble en dévoilant bien des secrets d''arrière-cuisine.

La Mafia a suscité tant de livres, tant de films et de feuilletons qu''on pourrait croire qu''aucun lecteur ne peut encore s''intéresser aux énièmes histoires d''un monde connu par cœur. Anthony Bourdain réussit pourtant l''exploit de nous passionner avec un thriller que le quotidien londonien The Independent trouve " very noir, very New York ". Le héros de La Surprise du chef ne souhaite pas suivre les traces de son oncle, un tueur obèse et impitoyable qui se goinfre de pizzas. Car le jeune Tommy est plus dégoûté encore par le goût des mafiosi pour la " malbouffe " que par leur cruauté. Son rêve est de devenir un chef pour lequel la grande cuisine n''aura plus de secrets. L''éditeur de Montalban parie que Pepe Carvalho aimerait ce polar gastronomique et son auteur, car Anthony Bourdain est un professionnel de la cuisine depuis des années et dirige à New York un restaurant réputé : la Brasserie des Halles.

Recounts the story of Mary Mallon, an immigrant cook considered responsible for the 1904 outbreak of typhoid fever in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and describes her attempts to escape capture and institutionalization.

Dodging minefields in Cambodia or diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world over in search of the ultimate meal. The bestselling author of "Kitchen Confidential" loves traveling as much as cooking, and "A Cook''s Tour" is the shotgun marriage of his two greatest passions. Photo inserts.