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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 916 Location: roaming...	Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:44 pm    Post subject:   Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Quote: Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it."
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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 916 Location: roaming...	Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:50 pm    Post subject:   This one is for Goodfella Mr Nice
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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 916 Location: roaming...	Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:00 pm    Post subject:   A couple more suggestions from the World's Thinnest Books collection: THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BILL by Hillary Clinton THINGS I CANNOT AFFORD by Bill Gates MY WILD YEARS by Al Gore EVERYTHING MEN KNOW ABOUT WOMEN Bonus: EVERYTHING WOMEN KNOW ABOUT MEN DETROIT: A Travel Guide SPOTTED OWL RECIPES by the EPA THE AMISH PHONE DIRECTORY ^ Excellent stocking stuffers, those.
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GoodFella Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 2205 Location: A little bit sideways!	Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:38 am    Post subject:   kanaka wrote: This one is for Goodfella Mr Nice Thanks K. Looks like it's right up my alley. ~GoodFella
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StickyMonkey Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 38 Location: CA	Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:00 am    Post subject:   I'm currently vasilating between the Redwall series by Brian Jacques which is very lite, very easy and very entertaining and The Witching Hour by Ann Rice which is a good read too.
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Tigerlily Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 103 Location: mid-west	Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:03 am    Post subject:   "The Witching Hour" is my favorite Anne Rice book. Did you hear that she is devoting all of her future books to Jesus? That should be interesting...
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kava Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 83	Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:43 am    Post subject:   One of my favourite authors is Douglas Coupland. He writes with emotional clarity and uses intelligent but cynical humour and language. The books are generally short in length, but long enough to get the story told just right instead of being bloated with irrelevent information (You won't find yourself "skimming" over any of the chapters). My favourite is Life After God. I also really loved Shampoo Planet and Hey Nostradamus!
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nimbus Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 92	Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:22 pm    Post subject:   Just watched Blade Runner 24 years after first viewing. Still holds up well. Now starting the novel that inspired it: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Supposed to be terrific. . .I'll let ya'll know.
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DGSUCKS Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 102 Location: Lost In The Stockroom	Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:08 pm    Post subject:   Mini mysteries by Jim Sukach
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