Maybe it was a sign of the times that Kitchen Confidential (Bloomsbury, 2008) had bestseller success. Through his talent and ethical world view, Bourdain developed a persona that has been described as a cultural ambassador for nearly every place he visited through his career. When he made his first appearance on TV, that image began to change. For the rest of his career, Bourdain would be known as a “bad-boy” chef for all the debauchery he described in clear and punctuated prose. After years of working in kitchens and using illicit drugs, he wrote about all of the experiences in an essay that published in The New Yorker, “ Don’t Eat Before Reading This” (19 April 1999) and his memoir would be expanded in his first nonfiction book, Kitchen Confidential (2000). The former dishwasher, line cook, and at the time, executive chef appeared on the scene as an improbable celebrity. Type “honest” and “Bourdain” in a Google search and you will see pages of articles and posts detailing how people remember Anthony Bourdain.
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