Talking to the new barman pictured, he starts officially when I can get 2, 1950's vintage batteries that will fire him up to [as described on the box] mix a martini, drink it, then glow red and blow smoke out of his ears.. cant wait! Until then he is sitting behind the bar doing what all good bartenders are known for...listening .
I was telling him the other night that Big Tony Bourdain is to hit our shores soon and as part of the summer light reading recycling campaign I thought you might like to read this review un-edited of his first book Kitchen Confidential it was printed in The Age in 2001.
The Performance Enhanced Kitchen
Excerpts in the New Yorker, critical acclaim from the major reviewers, Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential has even been touted as the new ‘Down and Out in London and Paris’ by Newsweek.
The title is from the 1958 Jack Arnold directed cult movie classic High School Confidential. You remember the one with Mamie Van Doren in that sweater, Russ Tamblyn as the cool nark posing as a hepcat, Jackie Coogan [uncle Fester] as the evil pusher and Jerry Lee Lewis as himself. Occasionally featuring as a late night double with Reefer Madness for the stoned lounge lizard set. A film so ridiculous that nobody took it seriously. Well, here we go again. This one is bound to be optioned.
Bourdain’s book hit the stands in Australia during the Sydney Olympics, a time when we all got an education in performance enhancing substance abuse.
Not a bad briefing for this entertaining but equally ridiculous, purportedly true biography.
The wild card in this very neat and well-written tale is heroin.
Bourdain’s book takes us into the “culinary und
erbelly” of the New York restaurant scene, through the stoned eyes of the author. A Vassar dropout turned line cook. A self-made bad boy, desperately trying to be a working class hero amongst the hard men of the kitchen.
It’s all very ‘cool’ but for the assumption that this is how it is, and its OK.
Excerpts in the New Yorker, critical acclaim from the major reviewers, Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential has even been touted as the new ‘Down and Out in London and Paris’ by Newsweek.
The title is from the 1958 Jack Arnold directed cult movie classic High School Confidential. You remember the one with Mamie Van Doren in that sweater, Russ Tamblyn as the cool nark posing as a hepcat, Jackie Coogan [uncle Fester] as the evil pusher and Jerry Lee Lewis as himself. Occasionally featuring as a late night double with Reefer Madness for the stoned lounge lizard set. A film so ridiculous that nobody took it seriously. Well, here we go again. This one is bound to be optioned.
Bourdain’s book hit the stands in Australia during the Sydney Olympics, a time when we all got an education in performance enhancing substance abuse.
Not a bad briefing for this entertaining but equally ridiculous, purportedly true biography.
The wild card in this very neat and well-written tale is heroin.
Bourdain’s book takes us into the “culinary und
erbelly” of the New York restaurant scene, through the stoned eyes of the author. A Vassar dropout turned line cook. A self-made bad boy, desperately trying to be a working class hero amongst the hard men of the kitchen.It’s all very ‘cool’ but for the assumption that this is how it is, and its OK.
The full article is here http://www.scribd.com/doc/10413030/The-Performance-Enhanced-Kitchen
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