{"product_id":"book-club-kitchen-confidential","title":"Book Club: Kitchen Confidential","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003eJoin us for Book Larder Book Club! We're shining a light on food titles that make us think beyond recipes, and July we are reading Anthony Bourdain's renowned first book \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booklarder.com\/products\/kitchen-confidential-25th-anniversary-edition\" title=\"Purchase Kitchen Confidential 25th Anniversary Edition\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKitchen Confidential\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. We will gather in the store before hours to discuss the book and its related themes.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(22, 19, 19);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: rgb(22, 19, 19);\" href=\"https:\/\/booklarder.com\/products\/on-eating-the-making-and-unmaking-of-my-appetites\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAbout the book: \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost three decades ago, the\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epublished a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat before You Read This,” by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKitchen Confidential\u003c\/em\u003e, became an even bigger sensation. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.\u003cspan\u003e From his first oyster in the Gironde as a child, to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain’s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a free community event, but\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScTROw3vdpaBL1OZqi5Km9ko05pfuhYwzYwQIzX7wmiJ2g8rg\/viewform?usp=header\" title=\"RSVP here\"\u003e we request an RSVP\u003c\/a\u003e to know how many people to expect\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003ePlease note this is a discussion group, not an author talk, and the author will not be present.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003eIf you're interested in purchasing a copy of the book, you can find it on our website \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booklarder.com\/products\/kitchen-confidential-25th-anniversary-edition\" title=\"here\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booklarder.com\/products\/what-is-queer-food-paperback\" title=\"here\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Event","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48078824964314,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/5957\/7004\/files\/Kitchenconfidential_55d7ed7e-0e82-4905-8e7b-ba47c5392040.jpg?v=1750894750","url":"https:\/\/booklarder.com\/products\/book-club-kitchen-confidential","provider":"Book Larder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}