With a new intro by Irvine Welsh.

After twenty-five years of sex, drugs and haute cuisine, chef Anthony Bourdain told all & became who he thought he wanted to be, a bestselling author.

From his first oyster as a child, to his position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown, then from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are passionate, unpredictable, eye-opening and very funny. Richly detailed descriptions of cooking in restaurants will make you salivate & then turn your stomach a few pages later.

One of the best modern yarn tellers, Bourdain’s writing is as interested in the truth as it is meant to entertain. It does both perfectly.

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Paperback / 432 pages
Published 29 July 2025