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Anthony Bourdain
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all.
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Anthony Bourdain’s long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide bestseller
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Anthony Bourdain is a life-long line cook and author of Kitchen Confidential . Here, he sets off to eat his way around the world. He heads out to Saigon where…
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Brash, wild, original and badass. This is Anthony Bourdain’s interpretation of a normal cookbook.
Anthony Bourdain,Laurie Woolever
A celebration of the life and legacy of one of the most important food writers of all time - the inimitable Anthony Bourdain
Juliana Sharaf
This fascinating book showcases the acerbic wit, the uncompromising opinions and the uncommon wisdom of Anthony Bourdain - passionate foodie, opinionated explorer and sardonic storyteller.
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Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the…
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Anthony Bourdain,Joel Rose
A delicious collection of horror stories with a foodie twist in a brand new series from Berger Books and internationally acclaimed chef Anthony Bourdain.A delicious collection of horror stories with…
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A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts
Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article…
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.
The Super Easy Air Fryer Cookbook offers the easiest recipes to indulge in healthier fried favorites any day of the week.
In This Essential Air Fryer Cookbook,you’ll find more than…
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Tom Vitale
Anthony Bourdain’s long-time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most far-flung and often volatile parts of the…
The story of a notorious cook and a riveting slice of 1900s New York from the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential
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Bestselling chef and host of No Reservations has never been one to pull punches. In his latest work, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from…
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A moving and insightful collection of quotes, memories, and images celebrating the life of Anthony Bourdain
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Fergus Henderson
A collection of recipes, celebrating the thrifty rural British tradition of making a delicious virtue of using every part of the animal.
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…
Anthony Bourdain committed suicide in 2018 and is now more popular than ever. He is famous for being brave enough to eat things most Americans would not regard as food…
A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain –
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The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, including interviews with Neil Degrasse Tyson and Trevor…
Emerging from the gladiator school environment of an upstate prison with an imposing physique and a reputation for skilled brutality, Bobby’s a lonely, guilt-ridden child inside a hulking body. He…
From the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential.
This long-awaited follow-up to Kitchen Confidential contains the confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the more controversial figures in food. Bourdain tracks his own unexpected voyage from journeyman…
Intended for the fans of Anthony Bourdain, this is a collection of his journalism. Containing stories from his worldwide misadventures, it talks about scrounging for eel in the backstreets of…
The first novel from the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential.
From the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential comes another sensational thriller.
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In this long-awaited cookbook, the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential reveals the hearty, delicious recipes of Les Halles and the provocative tricks of the trade that have made him a…
An illustrated, behind-the-scenes travel journal of the beloved chef’s global adventures.
Bourdain crisscrosses the world, sampling local delicacies from the sublime to the bizarre. Throughout his travels, Bourdain discovers again and again the importance of community, kinship, and the power of…
Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he’s seen…
New York chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir and expos. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position…
When wannabe chef Tommy Pagano settles for a stint in his cousin’s restaurant in Little Italy, he has no idea the place is Mafia-run, and that one of the specialties…
Henry and Frances, a husband-and-wife hitman team, have gone bamboo–living an idyllic, retired life in the Caribbean. But when Donnie, a criminal relocated by the Federal Witness Protection Program, inadvertently…
Una celebracion de la vida y el legado de uno de los escritores gastronomicos mas importantes. Anthony Bourdain vio mas mundo que nadie. Sus viajes lo llevaron desde los rincones…
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…
Charles Leerhsen
Based on extensive interviews with those who knew him intimately, this biography of the late celebrity chef and TV star examines his battles with childhood trauma and addiction and his…
Idwal Jones
Follows Jean-Marie Gallois, a young candy maker from Provence, as he earns an apprenticeship at a famous Paris restaurant, and works his way up to chef de cuisine.
In a not-too-distant future of food obsessed LA, where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurant, Jiro, a…
Michael Ruhlman
Ruhlman is renowned for bringing the secrets of great cooking to a large audience, just as he did in The Making of a Chef and The French Laundry Cookbook. Now…
Lydia Lunch,Anthony Bourdain
Lunch pulls the reader into a world that is entirely hers, where she exacts vengeance with an enviable ease and exerts an almost-sexual dominance over authority.
Bourdain, bestselling writer, chef, television host, and traveler, edits this year’s collection of the finest travel writing from the past year. Contributors include Bill Buford, David Sedaris, Gary Shteyngart, Paul…
A delightful collection of reliable recipes, folk history, and local colour by Cape Cod’s best-known and most-admired chef.
Written with the no-holds-barred ethos of his beloved series, No Reservations and Parts Unknown, the celebrity chef and culinary explorer’s first cookbook in more than ten years–a collection of recipes…