The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps & Bones
A bracing collection of essays and travelogues that mixes blunt, foul-mouthed kitchen lore with globe-trotting food adventures and sharp cultural criticism. It pulls back the curtain on professional cooking—the violence, camaraderie and humiliation—while delivering vivid, often hilarious accounts of eating around the world and negotiating fame, commerce and authenticity. Interspersed are personal confessions and reflections on excess, politics and the ethics of food, all written in a raw, witty, often irreverent voice. The result is a candid, unapologetic portrait of food, the people who make it and the messy machinery behind the scenes.
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- 2006
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