We have (thankfully) finished Filip Bondy's snoozefest titled Tip Off (detailing the 1984 NBA Draft featuring Olajuwon, Jordan, Sam Bowie & Barkley). Looking for something with a little more kick (to say nothing of actually being interesting), yesterday we started Kitchen Confidential, penned by maverick chef Anthony Bourdain.
For the unaware, Bourdain (now 52) hit the Big Time with his first book, the aforementioned Kitchen Confidential, published in 2000. The book was so big, in fact, he got his own television show on The Food Network in 2002. A Cook's Tour saw Bourdain travel to different states and profile local cuisine and restaurants. Many found his Food Network gig surprising, as Bourdain went out of his way in his book to slam stars Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay.
The book jacket promised the inside dish on cooking in a major restaurant. Oh, yes, it also promised tales of heavy drinking, drug use and...wait for it...sex.
We are two chapters in and happy to say the book has all of that -- and more.
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