num_pages: 288
description: A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks for the restaurant business as a wholeand for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores those changes taking the reader back and forthfrom the authors bad old daysto the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe travelling professional eater and drinker Bourdain compares and contrasts what hes seen and what hes seeing pausing along the way for a series of confessions rants investigations and interrogations of some of the more controversial figures in food. Always returning to the question: Why cook?  Or the harder to answer: Why cook well?Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit the story follows the twists and eddies through subjects ranging from: The Friends of David Chang an incredibly undiplomatic discussion with (and peek into the mind of) the hottest most influential chef in America. Dont Ask Alice: Alice Waters. Good . . . or Evil? The Big Shake Out: The restaurant business in post economic meltdown America. How its changing. How it might change even more. And Heroes and Villains. (With a few returning favorites.)
language: English
title: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
publisher: HarperCollins e-books