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Medium Raw

Autor Anthony Bourdain
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2011

La începutul anilor 2000, lumea culinară era zguduită de sinceritatea brutală a unui chef care nu se temea să expună mizeria din spatele ușilor închise ale restaurantelor. În Medium Raw, ne aflăm într-o scenă demnă de un film noir: suntem martorii unei întâlniri clandestine, o adunare ilegală a elitei gastronomice pe care Anthony Bourdain o descrie cu precizia unui raport de poliție și tensiunea unui summit mafiot. Aceasta nu este doar o carte despre mâncare, ci o radiografie a puterii și a pasiunii autodistructive.

Descoperim aici un autor care a lăsat în urmă furia pură a tinereții pentru o introspecție tăioasă. Dacă în Kitchen Confidential asistam la viața haotică din bucătăriile din Manhattan, în acest volum observăm cum succesul global și anii de călătorii pentru emisiunea Parts Unknown i-au șlefuit perspectiva, dar nu și limba ascuțită. Ca și The Nasty Bits de Anthony Bourdain, această biografie transformă documentele și experiențele de teren într-o narațiune viscerală, unde întrebarea centrală nu este „ce mâncăm?”, ci „de ce mai gătim bine într-o lume a compromisului?”.

Suntem de părere că forța acestui volum rezidă în onestitatea cu care Bourdain își privește propria evoluție, de la bucătarul dependent de adrenalină la „mâncătorul profesionist” care interoghează industria. Spre deosebire de romanele sale de ficțiune, precum Gone Bamboo, unde intriga este construită pe suspans, în Medium Raw tensiunea vine din realitatea crudă a unei profesii care devorează oameni. Stilul este alert, presărat cu rante-uri memorabile și portrete elegante, confirmând că Bourdain rămâne un romantic incurabil al gustului autentic.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780061718953
ISBN-10: 0061718955
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Ecco Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă dedesubturile culturii „celebrity chef” fără filtrele de PR. Medium Raw oferă o perspectivă matură asupra succesului și eșecului, fiind esențială pentru cei care au citit Kitchen Confidential și vor să vadă cum s-a schimbat industria, dar și omul din spatele tejghelei, în ultimul deceniu. Este o lecție de integritate într-o lume a consumului rapid.


Despre autor

Anthony Michael Bourdain (1956–2018) a fost un chef american, autor și realizator de documentare de călătorie, devenit celebru pentru explorarea culturii și condiției umane prin prisma gastronomiei. Absolvent al Culinary Institute of America, a lucrat decenii în bucătării profesionale, culminând cu poziția de executive chef la Brasserie Les Halles. Succesul literar a venit cu Kitchen Confidential, urmat de emisiuni iconice precum No Reservations și Parts Unknown. Deși cunoscut pentru scrierile sale culinare, Bourdain a publicat și romane polițiste, fiind o voce unică ce a îmbinat spiritul rebel cu o curiozitate profundă pentru diversitatea lumii.


Descriere scurtă

The instant New York Times bestseller and follow-up to Anthony Bourdain’s blockbuster classic on the cooking life, Kitchen Confidential Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, Alice Waters, the Top Chef winners and losers, and many more. If Hunter S. Thompson had written a book about the restaurant business, it could have been Medium Raw.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

An instant New York Times bestseller and the follow-up to the mega-hit Kitchen Confidential
In the ten years since Anthony Bourdain's classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business–and for Anthony Bourdain.
Medium Raw tracks Bourdain's unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, in a series of takes-no-prisoners confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.
Beginning with a secret, highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs that he compares to a mafia summit, Bourdain pulls back the curtain–but never pulls his punches–on the modern gastronomical revolution. Cutting right to the bone, Bourdain sets his sights on some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, the young superstar chef; the revered Alice Waters; the Top Chef contestants; and many more. Medium Raw is the deliciously funny, shockingly delectable result, sure to delight philistines and gourmands alike.

Recenzii

“Bourdain has insight, access and good taste, and he’s a naturally engaging writer...Bourdain is a hopeless romantic when it comes to food and the people who cook. The subtitle’s real valentines are two elegantly written profiles.” — New York Times Book Review
“Like a stinky fish sauce from his beloved Vietnam, [Bourdain’s] appeal among the food die-hards has only grown stronger and more pungent over time, and this book will only solidify that adoration.” — Austin American-Statesman
“This is Bourdain at his best. His food-porn vignettes are guaranteed to make your mouth water.” — Miami Herald
“Compulsively readable.” — New York Magazine's Grub Street
“The food orbit is [Bourdain’s] element, and chapters on today’s leading figures—from chef David Chang to critic Alan Richman—display his access, outspokenness and comedic gifts.” — Wall Street Journal
“The KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL author is a father now, but he hasn’t cleaned up his language, lost his zesty appetite or his critical zing.” — Time Magazine
“Bourdain is back with more intriguing food fights, moving further from the kitchen into the eating industry. [Bourdain’s] dissections...are still as hilarious, as scatological and as spot-on as ever....his fare—and his prose—is still quite spicy.” — BookPage
“Full of things everybody in the food world thinks but nobody will say...If [Bourdain’s] sharp eye and his wicked tongue have brought him acclaim, what’s kept him in the spotlight is his heart. Like Oscar Wilde, he’s a moralist in the guise of a libertine. Long may he prosper.” — Denver Post
“Mr. Bourdain is a vivid, bawdy and often foul-mouthed writer. He thrills in the attack, but he is also an enthusiast who writes well about things he holds dear.” — Wall Street Journal

Notă biografică

Anthony Bourdain was the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, the memoir A Cook's Tour, and the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and Appetites. His work appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018.

Descriere

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A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - 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?' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.

Caracteristici

Major publicity tour to coincide with publication, including high-profile festival appearances, feature articles and widespread review coverage