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- A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
- Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
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Here is Anthony Bourdain's long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide best seller.
A lot has changed since then - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business, and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present.
Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he's seen and what he's seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: 'Why cook?' Or the harder one to answer: 'Why cook well?'
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-05-2015
Great followup to Kitchen Confidential
Bourdain's style is brilliant, relaxed, well written and humorous. If you have an interest in chefs or cooking (or travel), there's something here for you. Thoroughly enjoyable read!
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- birravinder
- 26-04-2015
Great book
Bourdain does it again. A great followup on his previous book. His style and honesty are much appreciated
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- Anonymous User
- 30-10-2018
so damn funny
Kept laughing out loud while everyone looks on at me like a werdio ...such a good listen
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- Anonymous User
- 25-07-2022
Should be called, Ramblings and Observations
I love Bourdain, as a chef and a traveller I find him inspirational and fascinating.
I feel this was almost a push by the publisher to follow up Kitchen Confidential and he's said "well I've already told my story."
They've said "Just write something...anything."
So he did, a rambling, observational book that lacks cohesion or any real heart.
Not really a sequal, more a stand alone ode to "Well I'm here now, what next."
Leaving the reader / listener as lost as he appears to be at points of his transition from cook to celebrity.
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- Rosemary Lee
- 01-12-2020
The end of an era
The hospitality industry fades away as does the tourism industry. Both were great while they lasted (for about 70 years).
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- Anonymous User
- 07-06-2020
fantastic revisit to the bourdain mind
fantastic listen, brilliant narration from bourdain, great insight to the changes in the kitchen since kitchen confidential, and an outsiders look the mainstream flood
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- Anonymous User
- 11-12-2019
Another fantastic insight into the culinary world
There is something blunt and yet refined about Anthony Bourdain. This book will have you crying, laughing and empathising with the seedy underbelly of cooking. The final 5 chapters will only appeal to people with a strong connection to well known chefs. The ending also feels abrupt, but the book is still fantastic.
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- Vanessa
- 10-11-2019
why didn't I read this earlier?
Book was great, loved Bourdains descriptions of places he's been to around the world - towards the end it went on a bit long.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-10-2018
A great ride.
Really enjoy his method and storytelling. Such a pity he is no longer with us.
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- Ken Makita
- 07-03-2014
Listening to this again in 2021
And I will listen to this again soon, the next time I come across any Anthony Bourdain reference unexpectedly. This, along with Kitchen Confidential, is how I will remember him.
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- Khalil Ahmed
- 09-11-2019
A masterpiece
The way he tells stories is so seamless and amazing. He’s was a natural with words. Rip.
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- bahahahahahaha
- 20-01-2021
I miss this guy, a great voice for the wayward
I miss this guy, a great voice for the wayward, lost and lonely... as well as the narcacstic, maniacal and derranged.
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- Phil
- 18-01-2019
Sadly, it did not live up to my expections
After reading Kitchen Confidential many years ago, and being such a huge fan of No Reservations, I was very excited to listen to Medium Raw.
For me, it lacked much of what made Kitchen Confidential so ground breaking - the insider info we wouldn't ordinarily get access to (no sushi on Monday's etc!). Quite often, the book would turn into ramblings against people Bourdain holds a grudge against.
There were a few enjoyable moments, but those were few and far between. If you're a fan of Bourdain, definitely read it - but don't go into it with huge expectations as I have done, and you may be pleasantly surprised.
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- J. Robinson
- 21-09-2021
RIP bonny lad
Your honest, open, sometimes brutal style shall be missed by some but mostly your unwritten insights that could have come from your flip side.
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- Gary
- 25-07-2016
Bourdain at his finest
Great, Bourdains story telling is extraordinary I would highly recommend this as a listen. If you are a chef or interested in being one this is a must.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-11-2021
It's not Kitchen Confidential.
As per title, not as enthralling but interesting to see the development as a character. I find it a struggle to listen to some stories about places we now know he went to before the end. A wonderful man, delivered well but slightly lacking in substance.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-09-2021
the first one was better
loved kitchen confidential, so I decided to listen to this one, it is good, but the first one was better
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- Frank Sutherland
- 24-07-2021
Not for laymen
Kitchen Confidential was an exciting book for non-aficionados because it had some semblance of storyline and was laced with a multitude of unseen industry quirks and anecdotes. Medium Raw, however, is a jumbled mess of meaningless rambling if you don't know or care about the names of the hottest restaurants, chefs, and dishes.
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- Leah
- 07-06-2011
Very enjoyable
I liked this audio, his passion for food evident. Made even better by the fact Anthony Bourdin narrated himself.
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- LolitaLaura
- 16-07-2022
Memoirs and anecdotes, great for fans of Anthony Bourdain
I’ve listening to Kitchen Confidential written and narrated by Anthony Bourdain multiple times, so I figured I’d like Medium Raw. I didn’t expect it to be as good as Kitchen Confidential, and it isn’t. It isn’t quite as linear and I wasn’t sure what to expect from the “story”, but it’s full of great little anecdotes, stories, musings, rants and raves that you’ll enjoy if you’re a fan of Anthony Bourdain. Rest in peace, Tony.
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- Mr Robert O Churcher
- 25-02-2022
Don’t bother - kitchen confidential much better
Don’t bother - kitchen confidential much better - really quite boring, and lots of dated references. Just my thoughts
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