Kitchen Confidential Nicholas Thomas just a pistol to defend

just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road

and knowing when to give and when to take

the top-down theory of cosmology

disease and contagion

a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago

Kitchen Confidential Nicholas Thomas just a pistol to defendAfter twenty five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as