Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a New York Times bestselling non-fiction book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain.The book released in 2000 is both Bourdain's professional story and a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens. The book is known for its treatment of the professional culinary industry. The commercial kitchen is described as an intense unpleasant and sometimes hazardous place of work staffed by what he describes as misfits.