MEDIUM RAW, BY ANTHONY BOURDAIN, BLOOMSBURY, $35.
Knives at 20 paces! Bad boy Bourdain is back. As fans of his best-selling Kitchen Confidential know, he is a writer who never uses a polite phrase if an obscenity is available.
“A loud, egotistical, one-note arsehole” is how one critic described him, which strikes Bourdain as “entirely fair and appropriate”. He’s vicious, funny and angrier than any man should be who’s gone from cook – he won’t claim the title of chef – to TV star. His energy fuels a book that is partly a re-telling of that journey, partly an excuse to drop bombs on anyone or anything that bugs him – from Eurotrash diners to overpriced food to Ronald McDonald. Yet his heart is still in the kitchen and no one writes better about the actual experience of eating and the glory of good, unfussy food.
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