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Is this good? As good as kitchen confidential? recommend good chef books pls

>> No.18404871
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>Is this good?
Yes
>As good as kitchen confidential?
Equal. TDITK is about MPW and the junkie's book is about the industry at large as well as his own story.

>> No.18405040

>>18404871
reading kitchen confidential I forgot at times that it's basically a collection of essays, the switch between autobiographical and philosophical passages is refreshing

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I read this many years ago as a giant fan of Keith Floyd. It’s very funny and candid, I recommend it. It is ghost written but they make no secret of it and the ghost writer capture’s Floyd’s wit and charm very well.

>> No.18405093

Everlasting Meal is my favorite and got me into cooking in the first place.

>> No.18405163

What's with the whole "scumbag chef" archetype? Why are so many of them like that?
>oooohhhh ahhhhhh it's so stressful cooking for a restaurant they work you so much ahhhhh ohhhhhhh
Yeah and some people work in steel mills. Some people work sewer maintenance for living, they literally work in a sewer.

>> No.18405194

>>18405163
Those people are angry scumbags too, they just don't get their own TV shows. Instead they just go home and beat their wives. You would be able to figure this out easily if you weren't retarded.

>> No.18405196

>>18404550

It can be viewed as an insight into what kind of personality you need to reach the very top of an industry, or into the mind of a man who was quite seriously mentally ill and hasn't realised it. Bourdain's book is "yeah I said fuck, whatcha gonna do about it?".

>>18405163

Because Marco got really famous and made a shitload of money doing it.

>> No.18405205

>>18405194
>Those people are angry scumbags too, they just don't get their own TV shows.
OK and why do chefs? Why should we dote on them and treat their stressful work situation like it's some special case deserving of special attention? It's not.

>> No.18405210

>>18405205

Who's asking you to do that?

>> No.18405217

>>18405210
non sequitur

>> No.18405751

>>18405205
because when you decide to stop bludgeoning your wife and take her out for a meal, we cook your food, that you eat.
i'll start putting rat poison in then to find other ways to vent you faggot

>> No.18405763

>>18405751
Shut up and make my steak medium rare, junkie

>> No.18405836

>>18404550
I like the part where he narrates how he had sex with his boss' girlfriend. In the fridge.

>> No.18406046

>>18405205
You're on a cooking board, retard. Of course chefs will be more popular here than people that work in a sewer.

>> No.18406933

>>18405763
it'll me medium rare because i enjoy cooking.
it'll be seasoned with spit and cum because i dont enjoy you

>> No.18407395

>>18405205
based retard

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>>18405085
>nonchalantly takes a glug of wine
>”hello, gastronauts!”
I miss him.

>> No.18407869

>>18407863
So do I. I wish everything he did was on iPlayer in high quality but they still have Floyd on France at least.

>> No.18407939

>>18405163
Because nothing interesting comes out of steel mills or sewers. Some jobs just have more desirable output.

>> No.18407945

>>18407939
Hey fuck you I work in the water industry and sewers are fascinating.