Description

In this candid follow-up to his breakout memoir, a celebrated chef-turned-television personality reflects on fame, food culture, and the forces reshaping the restaurant world. With characteristic wit, profanity, lyricism, and uncompromising honesty, he scrutinizes celebrity chefs, media spectacle, culinary authenticity, and his own uneasy role in the food-media machine. Part memoir, part cultural critique, and part love letter disguised as a provocation, the book balances sharp-edged rants with vivid meditations on cooking, travel, ambition, and the people who make—and consume—food. It offers a more mature but no less fearless portrait of a restless, influential voice in contemporary food writing.

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HarperCollins

Published Jan 1, 2010

ISBN: 9780061998065

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First Published

2010

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain.

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