The Nasty Bits
Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
By: Anthony Bourdain
Paperback | 1 May 2007
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New York Times Bestseller
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.
Bestselling chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn't want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever.
Bringing together the best of his previously uncollected nonfiction--and including new, never-before-published material--The Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike.
Industry Reviews
"His writing is at its most savory in passages about the joys of sharing food with people who love it. His words are not always gentlemanly, but they vividly convey how, say, sitting on the plastic-covered kitchen floor of an Inuit family's house and joining in as they eagerly tear into the raw liver, brain and blubber of a freshly killed seal can be, as Mr. Bourdain says, a moment of rare intimacy, pleasure and indeed beauty." --Wall Street Journal
"Lovable rogue chef and author of Kitchen Confidential describes stomach-roiling feasts in exotic lands and snipes at celebrity chefs in this entertaining tome." --Chicago Tribune
"A vivid and witty writer...[Bourdain's] greatest gift is his ability to convey his passion for professional cooking...In Bourdain's telling this is inspiring, band-of-brothers stuff, a tale of the trenches where ends almost always justify means." --New York Times Book Review
"[An] informed and unvarnished view from the kitchen...[Bourdain's] best writing can make food lovers quiver like raw fish." --Cleveland Plain Dealer High- and low-lights from the culinary world by the delightfully jaded chef. "People"
His writing is at its most savory in passages about the joys of sharing food with people who love it. His words are not always gentlemanly, but they vividly convey how, say, sitting on the plastic-covered kitchen floor of an Inuit family's house and joining in as they eagerly tear into the raw liver, brain and blubber of a freshly killed seal can be, as Mr. Bourdain says, a moment of rare intimacy, pleasure and indeed beauty. "Wall Street Journal"
Lovable rogue chef and author of "Kitchen Confidential" describes stomach-roiling feasts in exotic lands and snipes at celebrity chefs in this entertaining tome. "Chicago Tribune"
A vivid and witty writer [Bourdain's] greatest gift is his ability to convey his passion for professional cooking...In Bourdain's telling this is inspiring, band-of-brothers stuff, a tale of the trenches where ends almost always justify means. "New York Times Book Review"
[An] informed and unvarnished view from the kitchen...[Bourdain's] best writing can make food lovers quiver like raw fish. "Cleveland Plain Dealer"" "High- and low-lights from the culinary world by the delightfully jaded chef."--"People" "His writing is at its most savory in passages about the joys of sharing food with people who love it. His words are not always gentlemanly, but they vividly convey how, say, sitting on the plastic-covered kitchen floor of an Inuit family's house and joining in as they eagerly tear into the raw liver, brain and blubber of a freshly killed seal can be, as Mr. Bourdain says, a moment of rare intimacy, pleasure and indeed beauty."--"Wall Street Journal" "Lovable rogue chef and author of "Kitchen Confidential" describes stomach-roiling feasts in exotic lands and snipes at celebrity chefs in this entertaining tome."--"Chicago Tribune" "A vivid and witty writer...[Bourdain's] greatest gift is his ability to convey his passion for professional cooking...In Bourdain's telling this is inspiring, band-of-brothers stuff, a tale of the trenches where ends almost always justify means."--"New York Times Book Review" "[An] informed and unvarnished view from the kitchen...[Bourdain's] best writing can make food lovers quiver like raw fish."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer" Praise for "The Nasty Bits" A "New York Times "bestseller - Book Sense bestseller "High- and low-lights from the culinary world by the delightfully jaded chef."--"People" "His writing is at its most savory in passages about the joys of sharing food with people who love it. His words are not always gentlemanly, but they vividly convey how, say, sitting on the plastic-covered kitchen floor of an Inuit family's house and joining in as they eagerly tear into the raw liver, brain and blubber of a freshly killed seal can be, as Mr. Bourdain says, a moment of rare intimacy, pleasure and indeed beauty."--"Wall Street Journal" "Lovable rogue chef and author of "Kitchen Confidential" describes stomach-roiling feasts in exotic lands and snipes at celebrity chefs in this entertaining tome."--"Chicago Tribune" "A vivid and witty writer...[Bourdain's] greatest gift is his ability to convey his passion for professional cooking...In Bourdain's telling this is inspiring, band-of-brothers stuff, a tale of the trenches where ends almost always justify means."--"New York Times Book Review" "[An] informed and unvarnished view from the kitchen...[Bourdain's] best writing can make food lovers quiver like raw fish."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer" Praise for "The Nasty Bits": A "New York Times "bestseller - Book Sense bestseller "High- and low-lights from the culinary world by the delightfully jaded chef."-"People" "His writing is at its most savory in passages about the joys of sharing food with people who love it. His words are not always gentlemanly, but they vividly convey how, say, sitting on the plastic-covered kitchen floor of an Inuit family's house and joining in as they eagerly tear into the raw liver, brain and blubber of a freshly killed seal can be, as Mr. Bourdain says, a moment of rare intimacy, pleasure and indeed beauty."-"Wall Street Journal" "Lovable rogue chef and author of "Kitchen Confidential" describes stomach-roiling feasts in exotic lands and snipes at celebrity chefs in this entertaining tome."-"Chicago Tribune" "A vivid and witty writer...[Bourdain's] greatest gift is his ability to convey his passion for profe Praise for The Nasty Bits A New York Times bestseller - Book Sense bestseller " High- and low-lights from the culinary world by the delightfully jaded chef. " -- People " His writing is at its most savory in passages about the joys of sharing food with people who love it. His words are not always gentlemanly, but they vividly convey how, say, sitting on the plastic-covered kitchen floor of an Inuit family's house and joining in as they eagerly tear into the raw liver, brain and blubber of a freshly killed seal can be, as Mr. Bourdain says, a moment of rare intimacy, pleasure and indeed beauty. " -- Wall Street Journal " Lovable rogue chef and author of Kitchen Confidential describes stomach-roiling feasts in exotic lands and snipes at celebrity chefs in this entertaining tome. " -- Chicago Tribune " A vivid and witty writer ... [Bourdain ' s] greatest gift is his ability to convey his passion for professional cooking...In Bourdain's telling this is inspiring, band-of-brothers stuff, a tale of the trenches where ends almost always justify means. " -- New York Times Book Review " [An] informed and unvarnished view from thekitchen...[Bourdain ' s] best writing can make food lovers quiver like raw fish. " -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Praise for Anthony Bourdain: "Bourdain's enthusiasm is so intense that it practically explodes off the page...Bourdain shows himself to be one of the country's best food writers. His opinions are as strong as his language, and his tastes as infectious as his joy.""--New York Times Book Review" "�Writes� the kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages."--"USA"" Today" "Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois."--"New York" magazine""
ISBN: 9781596913608
ISBN-10: 1596913606
Published: 1st May 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 20.96 x 13.97 x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.32
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