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Sunday brunch in downtown Sacramento?
I don’t do a brunch “per se” anymore...not since reading Kitchen Confidential. I do like eating at brunch time though...and Cafe Bernardo is excellent. Fresh, fresh, fresh ingredients!! I’ve said it...
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Best Buffett's
If you read "Kitchen Confidential" you will never ever eat the buffet at the Rainbow Room.
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Anthony Bourdain's New Yorker Article "Don't Eat Before Reading This....
Does any one know where I can get a copy of this article by Anthony Bourdainthat appeared in the New Yorker Magazine and is somewhat the basis for Kitchen Confidential. (e-mail or purchase?) Or does anyone know what issue of the...
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cheap sushi?
This is just for fun, but if you read "Kitchen Confidential" by Chef Anthony Bourdain, you’ll see why you should never seek out “cheap,” discount," or “half-price” sushi! Just a thought, as I could...
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50% off sushi at Benihana in Wheeling
All I can hear in the back of my mind is a line from Bourdain’s "Kitchen Confidential" to the effect that “discount sushi” might more honestly be labelled “old sushi”! A nice cheap deal is a...
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The chicken or the egg?
I’m about 120 pages into Tony Bourdain’s "Kitchen Confidential," and he goes into some very interesting detail regarding why restaurants flounder, and the various stages of a typical demise. And yes, I know I’m...
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excellent panel discussion at the new school
the new school is having a panel discussion on wednesday at 8:00 about kitchen confidential. bourdain will be there, as will mario batali and various other luminaries. the owners of nobu and tribeca grill and i don’t know...
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A Brief Book Review
Though some might question his narrow focus on buggery from among the broader sodomistic pleasures (see p.1), M. Bourdains Kitchen Confidential is one terrific, funny read, packed with restaurant and cooking...
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$1 oysters Cobble Hill
I would NEVER go to $1 oyster night ANYWHERE. Just like I would never go to all you can eat sushi night no matter how cheap it was. Come on you Chowhounds!! Didn’t you read Kitchen Confidential?
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"DON'T EAT BEFORE READING THIS.....
-line, as far as I know. And it was toned down considerably by the editors, I can assure you. The full length deranged rant will be published as a non-fiction Bloomsbury book titled KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL: Adventures In The...
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Clementine's Belgian Bistro
of small beignets – very flavorful, and not too fried. We also tried the mussels in a garlic/butter sauce. ICK. I have eaten mussels many times, and had since given them up after reading "Kitchen Confidential" - but thought...
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Cooking shows at hulu.com
The "Kitchen Confidential" drama series loosely based on the book is also on hulu.
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where did Bourdain & Zimmern eat offal in Brooklyn???
Happy to help! I’ve never been; I’m envious. An editor friend told me I had to watch this episode. I kind of hate most food TV, had resisted Bourdain even though I’d enjoyed "Kitchen Confidential", but I got a...
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Chowhound Cinema
Speaking of Chow Flicks...any word on the movie treatment of "Kitchen Confidential"?
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A bad day for sushi?
tough the first day. Also, in Kitchen Confidential the author has a rule: never order fish on Mondays. I think many restaurants get their fish deliveries too late for the Monday cut-off, so the stuff has been hanging around all...
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