Second episode and it’s back to what it was all about. The kitchen, the cooking or lack thereof. And I am sooo impressed that Ramsay didn’t let it turn into Survivor – Corey made stupid choices and will now have...

Or read Kitchen Confidential. Not for the squeamish. Having worked in restaurants, hotels, and bars here and abroad, most are cleaner than a typical home. You aren’t shut down for hygiene (in all but the extreme cases), the...

I’ve read Anthony Bourdain’s book Kitchen Confidential, so I’ve read all sorts of bizarre horror stories about the behind-the-scenes world of restaurants. I have friends who have worked in the industry, but...

I found it really creepy when , in the show, Gordon would sneak away from the kitchen and report (confidentially) to the camera how close the competition was between the two of them. He was using his golf reporter voice and it...

be amusing to see if a professional restaurant kitchen is as bad as Anthony Bourdain says in his book, "Kitchen Confidential". The server quickly introduced himself, "Hi, my name is Bob [names changed to protect the guilty],...

Hmm, interesting question. I’ve never worked as either a waiter or in the kitchen and can go only by what I’ve read in Kitchen Confidential etc. Let’s take a top notch restaurant. Given that cooks need to have...

So its a good thing that the show is perpetuating the Kitchen Confidential stereotype, sans the coke? I think people were hoping that it was not such a cliche. Also, Harold, the winner from Season 1, never once laid into anyone,...

Saveur’s Thanksgiving issue documents The Splendid Table’s apple-licious brine for Turkey Day.

Funny though... after reading Kitchen Confidential, I knew that cooking was the career for me.

For those of you that are interested, the excerpt from Kitchen Confidential. Link: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?userid=2WZNLBCHFK&ean=9780060934910&displayonly=CHP

Sounds like just another chapter from Kitchen Confidential...........

Lately, I’ve been reading a number of food/resturant oriented books and I want to go buy another one, so I’m looking for suggestions. I’ve read Kitchen Confidential, Julie & Julia, and Heat (my favorite). Any...

If everyone in the west village knows who this guy is, well then who is he? My girlfriend just finished Kitchen Confidential and won’t stop asking me who bigfoot is, can a hound please put this discussion to rest –...

I’m going into Manhattan next Sunday and would like to have brunch somewhere between the theatre district and Central Park. I am however, fresh off of reading "Kitchen Confidential" and as such have “concerns”...

Not sure if anyone will be interested but there’s a funny little backgrounder in the Guardian newspaper about Alain Ducasse and all the recent brouhaha... Link below Ellen PS. Anthony Bourdain recenly launched Kitchen...