Kitchen Confidential, the book that made Anthony Bourdain a star after he published it in 2000, hasn’t quite aged like a perfect Burgundy. Some of it may have even turned a little vinegary. The memoir celebrated a profane and raunchy culinary culture boiling over with testosterone, where womanizing line cooks threw around the word cocksucker like punctuation and female staff could only survive by giving as good as they got. In one of its most famous scenes, a young Tony realizes he wants to become a chef after watching another cook slip away from the broiler station to go “rear-end” a new bride in the alley while her wedding party and groom enjoyed dinner. In other words, it was a joyous, charismatic romp through the kind of world we now, two decades later, recognize as a menacing hellhole for a lot of women.
from Stories from Slate https://ift.tt/2JxpDE9
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