Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook [Paperback]

The instantNew York Timesbestseller and follow-up to Anthony Bourdain’s blockbuster classic on the cooking life,Kitchen Confidential

Medium Rawmarks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestsellerKitchen Confidentialand three-time Emmy Award-nominated host ofNo Reservationson TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, Alice Waters, the Top Chef winners and losers, and many more. If Hunter S. Thompson had written a book about the restaurant business, it could have beenMedium Raw.

An instantNew York Timesbestseller and the follow-up to the mega-hitKitchen Confidential

In the ten years since Anthony Bourdain's classicKitchen Confidentialfirst alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business–and for Anthony Bourdain.

Medium Rawtracks Bourdain's unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, in a series of takes-no-prisoners confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.

Beginning with a secret, highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs that he compares to a mafia summit, Bourdain pulls back the curtain–but never pulls his punches–on the modern gastronomical revolution. Cutting right to the bone, Bourdain sets his sights on some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, the young superstar chef; the revered Alice Waters; theTop Chefcontestants; and many more.Medium Rawis the deliciously funny, shol“ä