Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641 EAN: 9781596913608 ISBN: 1596913606 Label: Bloomsbury USA Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: May 01, 2007 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Release Date: May 01, 2007 Sales Rank: 74313 Studio: Bloomsbury USA
In the multiweek New York Times bestseller The Nasty Bits, bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether surviving a lethal hot pot in Chengdu, splurging on New York’s priciest sushi, or singing the praises of Ecuadorian line cooks and Hell’s Kitchen dives, Bourdain is as provocative, engaging, and opinionated as ever. The Nasty Bits is an irresistible tasting menu of food writing at its outrageous best—served up Bourdain style.
What Others Say
These bits make for a meal
If you like Tony Bourdain you probably will enjoy this; you may not love it, but it's certainly not a waste of time. The essays are classic Bourdain through the years: honest, angry, bored, frustrated, but, above all, hungry. There's even a sappy little Xmas fable thrown in just to show that he does have a bit of a soft side, especially for the industry that he so passionately adores. It's a very good book to carry around for when you have time to snag a quick read (I always have a book in my handbag and this was perfect) and there's a section at the end where he revisits each essay and updates the whys and hows each came to be. Best is when he admits to being a bit of a wanker.
Overall, I can easily recommend this. He's a ... Read More
Not My Favorite
I love Anthony Bourdain. There. I said it. I would love to hang out with him, cook with him, and well, let's just say, do other things with him. Except read The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones.
Bourdain is a genuinely talented writer, as he proved in Kitchen Confidential. He is a charismatic raconteur as he proves each week on his television show. But The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones is a compilation of many divergent pieces, thrown together to attain maximum fiscal return. Because the tales vary so greatly, the reader is forced to jump from concept to concept without anything binding the pieces together properly. Don't get me wrong, each piece is well crafted, but just because they're all published together doesn't make for a cohesive book.
Love it!
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones was great. I love reading everything Anthony writes because you can hear him speak as you read it.
Great and all TRUE
Loved this, bought it's the second one of Anthony's I have ordered. I am a Chef myself and it brings tears to my eyes knowing someone else is being tormented by patrons and the front of the house. Very good reading even if you never have cooked a meal his humor and honesty makes The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones GREAT.
Quick read
This is a collection of stories and experiences Bourdain has written about over the years. Some of them are very good, others a little over the top or even slightly boring. He has toned down some of his jabs at other celebrity chefs, trying to give balance and to temper past comments. If only I think to deflect any potential criticism of hypocracy, given that he has become quite the celeb himself. Some of his rants in the past have come across to me as a bit self serving.
It's a fairly quick read and is worth it for most of the chapters. It really deserves three and a half stars, but I can only give it three or four, so I selected four. I actually got some useful insight out of it. Also Kitchen Confidential was a real hoot. ... Read More
