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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I HATED Kitchen Confidential.  He came across as a blowhard who thought very highly of himself as a bad-ass because he knew how to chop an onion.  I've grown up in restaurant kitchens and have worked in them as an adult.  He portrayed kitchen work as something only degenerates and immigrants (with few other choices) would take on.  Just because you were a vile person in the kitchen, doesn't mean everyone else is too, Tony.  That being said, I enjoyed his travel shows, even though his attitude seemed to follow two extremes - pure reverence or total snark towards the locals.[/quote]

I didn’t really get that from the book (and I also spent a few years as an adult working in restaurant kitchens). I thought he was pretty forthcoming about being more of glorified line cook than a proper chef. Restaurants do tend to attract a bawdy cast of characters—maybe not Le Bernardin or The French Laundry—but I found his stories rang true enough. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a visionary, though. I think he just had the look, the attitude and enough writing chops to ride the foodie wave and capture the attention of all the corporate drones who dreamed of quitting and going to culinary school in the 90s. [/quote]

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