"Utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and precise ear for kitchen patois." - New York magazine
"You'll laugh, you'll cry. . . you're gonna love it." - Denver Post
"The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages." - USA Today
Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory. - USA Today
"A gonzo memoir of whats really going on behind those swinging doors. . . . Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain is unique." - Newsweek
"Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo and a precise ear for kitchen patois." - New York magazine
"Hysterical. . . . Bourdain gleefully rips through the scenery to reveal private backstage horrors." - New York Times Book Review