"Who launched a career with the book ""Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly""?"
Kitchen Confidential (book) Kitchen Confidential (book) Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a "New York Times" bestselling non-fiction book written by American chef Anthony Bourdain, first published in 2000. In 1999, Bourdain's essay "Don't Eat Before Reading This" was published in the New Yorker. This served as the foundation for "Kitchen Confidential." Released in 2000, the book is both Bourdain's professional memoir and a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens. The book is known for its treatment of the professional culinary industry, which he describes as an intense, unpleasant, and sometimes hazardous workplace staffed by who he describes as misfits. Bourdain believes
Kitchen Confidential (TV series) December 5, 2005, with its fourth episode, but only received 3.38 million viewers. Four days later, Fox announced the cancellation of the series. On May 22, 2007, 20th Century Fox released "Kitchen Confidential: The Complete Series" on DVD in Region 1. The 2-disc set contains all 13 episodes of the series as well as audio commentaries on the series premiere by Darren Star, David Hemingson and Bradley Cooper, on the series finale by Karine Rosenthal, David Hemingson, Bradley Cooper and Dean Lopata and two featurettes – "A Tour of the Nolita Restaurant" and "A Recipe for Comedy". Kitchen Confidential (TV