"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