When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote “Don’t Eat Before You Go through This” in THE BRAND NEW Yorker, he spared no one’s appetite, uncovering what goes on behind your kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably surprising banquet that lays out his twenty-five many years of sex, drugs, and haute food.

From his 1st oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers from the East Village, through the mobsters towards the rats, Bourdain’s brilliantly written and wonderfully read, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter.