New Releases by Anthony Bourdain

Ein Buch wie ein Messer – scharf, kompromisslos und ein bisschen blutig Er führte ein Millionenpublikum hinter die Fassade der Nobel Cuisine – und zeigte uns die infernalischen Abgründe der Gastronomie. Seine Küche im legendären „Les Halles” in New York City war von derselben Leidenschaft, Besessenheit und Kompromisslosigkeit durchströmt wie die Bücher, die ihn auch als Autor weltberühmt machten – allen voran »Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs«. Heute, ein Jahrzehnt später, sind ratgebende Starköche medienpräsenter als schaumschlagende Politiker. Das Kochen ist vom Handwerk zum Hobby und schließlich zur Lifestyle-Rubrik mutiert – zur quotenheischenden Wohlfühlberieselung. In seinem neuen Buch rechnet Anthony Bourdain mit diesem „Imperium der Mittelmäßigkeit” ab und erinnert daran, was in einer Küche fließen muss. Nicht Balsamicoreduktion, sondern Blut, Schweiß und Tränen. Mit 28 Jahren Berufserfahrung in den härtesten Küchen der Welt, der Zen-Weisheit eines Lebenskünstlers und dem ungetrübten Blick eines Outlaws gibt Bourdain schnörkellose Antworten auf brennende Fragen. Warum bezahlen die reichsten Menschen der Welt verlässlich Unsummen für den schlechtesten Fraß? Warum machen die renommiertesten Köche Werbung für den größten Schrott? Was muss jeder Mensch kochen können, um als mündiger Bürger durchzugehen? Anthony Bourdains Aufruf für eine neue Küche ist denkbar einfach: weniger Bullshit, mehr Genuss!

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. .

The riveting true crime tale from beloved chef and bestselling author Anthony Bourdain, originally published in 2001, centering deadly cook Mary Mallon-otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary. By the turn of the twentieth century, it seemed that New York had put an end to the outbreaks of typhoid fever that had ravaged the city. That is, until 1904, when the disease broke out in a household on Long Island. Authorities suspected the family cook, Mary Mallon, of infecting the family through the food on their plates. But before she could be tested, the asymptomatic woman-soon to be known as Typhoid Mary-had disappeared. Proceeding to spread her pestilence from home to home across New York for years, Mary narrowly escaped the law until her arrest and institutionalization in 1907. After three years, she was released on the promise that she could never work as a cook again. So she disappeared once more, assuming countless aliases as she blazed a diseased path through New York, claiming countless lives in her wake. This is her story. Taking us through the seedy back doors of New York''s kitchens circa 1900, Typhoid Mary uncovers the horrifying conditions that allowed for the deadly spread of typhoid over a decade and the life of the roguish woman who propelled it. Writing with his signature panache about his best subjects, rugged kitchens and their hardened chefs, Bourdain serves a feast for true crime fans and true Bourdain acolytes alike.

''It works extremely well. In large part because Bourdain is a very funny writer; sharp, honest and with a beguiling mix of belligerence and sensitivity'' Sunday Telegraph ''Brilliantly written up in a raw, stylish gonzo prose, with pitch-black humour and a devilish turn of phrase'' Evening Standard ____________________ Anthony Bourdain, life-long line cook and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, sets off to eat his way around the world. But being Anthony Bourdain, this was never going to be a conventional culinary tour. Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, and travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia (Pailin). Other stops include dining with gangsters in Russia, a medieval pig slaughter and feast in northern Portugal, the Basque All Male Gastronomique Society in Saint Sebastian, rural Mexico with his Mexican sous-chef, a pilgrimage to the French Laundry in the Napa Valley and a return to his roots in the tiny fishing village of La Teste, where he first ate an oyster as a child. Written with the inimitable machismo and humour that has made Tony Bourdain such a sensation, A Cook''s Tour is an adventure story sure to give you indigestion.

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

Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential. Bourdain spares no one''s appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdain''s first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnesses for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop 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. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You''ll beg the chef for more, please.

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.

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.

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.