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  • Perfect Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; Reprint edition (May 1, 2007)
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5.0 out of 5 starsProvocative Read on Culinary Gossip and Issues. Buy It.
By B. Marold HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on May 19, 2006
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`The Nasty Bits' by chef, novelist, and culinary bad boy TV and print journalist, Tony Bourdain is a collection of thirty-six (36) non-fiction pieces and one fictional fragment from various American and Australian English language culinary journals and other miscellaneous mags such as `Playboy' and `Rolling Stone'. The pieces are cleverly, if somewhat arbitrarily divided into six chapters, titled by the five flavors on the tongue, Salty, Sweet, Sour, Bitter, and Unami, plus `A Taste of Fiction'.

Many of the pieces are an update to the subjects Tony covers in his best known book, the memoir, `Kitchen Confidential', plus commentaries on his adventures while doing various TV shows and personal appearances since he hung up his toque as executive chef of Les Halles in New York City a few years ago. I am happy to say that while I was never very impressed by the few Bourdain pieces I read in `Gourmet', almost all of these pieces have something interesting to say to the lover of culinary gossip.

Bourdain is almost unique among the current crop of culinary celebrities. I have often seen it written that he is a better writer than he was a chef. In my reading, I think this is quite true, since I find his pieces as engaging as the very spicy memoir from Gael Greene and `almost' as literate as the writing of the great M. F. K. Fisher. His one cookbook of recipes from Les Halles is worth reading more for the way Bourdain writes about his very simple recipes than for the recipes themselves.

Bourdain's primary interest is as an iconoclast and as a guide to the dirty underbelly of the culinary world.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Funny Collection
By KW on May 18, 2006
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What do you get when an author who feels like a character out of Spinal Tap and makes an earnest attempt at food porn? Has to be Anthony Bourdain. This is a funny collection of both published and unpublished material Bourdain has done over the few years since the publication of his much talked about book Kitchen Confidential.It is rude, irreverent and honest and will make you wish he didn't wait so damn long to publish again. Be warned though if you take offense easily at vulgarity, don't have a sense of humor or adventure this is not a good book to start with or maybe read at all. Those who are familiar with Chef Bourdain's style of writing and have seen his show No Reservations on the Travel Channel will no doubt enjoy this collection.
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5.0 out of 5 starsArt-food Dismissed. Bourdain is HUNGRY.
By J. V. Lewis on June 1, 2006
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Art-cuisine one-upsmanship is incresingly out of hand. Showcase restaurants are more and more divorced from the roots of good eating: the economical, parsimonious, and HUNGRY tradition of farm, field, and woods. When Anthony Bourdain writes, whether it be about commercial kitchens, or Bistro food, or artsy platings, or variety meats, or his adventures to the culinary hinterlands, he is always criticizing one thing: the sissifying of food [and chefs] in the art-cuisine market. He disdains the fussy, the hyper-refined, and the decorative. His criticisms in Nasty Bits are just as spot-on damning and funny as we've come to expect after reading Kitchen Confidential and The Les Halles Cookbook. He enthusiastically celebrates the simple pleasures of skillfully-prepared simple dishes, returning time and again to our hunger and our need for sustenance and flavor.

In Nasty Bits he travels the world in search of intense and intimate food adventures. He eats seal with an Inuit family, and his description is alive to the newness and immediacy of the experience. But these world travels do not, by any means, lead to an embrace of 'fusion' cuisine with all of its forced assimilations and jarring collisions. He is a food realist: he operates within the larger economy, as nearly all of us do, but with a real regard for the basic dishes that evolved out of specific places before refrigeration and multinationals. Without indulging in specious pseudo-intellectual arguments, pro or con, as so many food writers-cum-cultural critics do, he references appetite and taste. These are certainly the first and second reasons we eat.

What he disparages so eloquently are all the OTHER reasons we eat: to impress, to be seen, to scratch the itch of dilettantism, to celebrate our wealth, etc.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsRock and Roll
By Two Rivers on August 1, 2006
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This book is a collection of essays and previously published articles. It's great to have them all in one place. If you're a true fan of Bourdain you don't have to read any further, you'll like this too-Buy it. If you're new to Bourdain, come on in the Tequila's fine!
I have always been interested in food, cooking and especially restaurants. My mom worked in, and owned a few, as I grew up. All of the jobs of my youth were in them. Her strongest desire was for me not to make a career in one. I followed her wishes and have had a successful non-restaurant career, but a part of me will always dream of what could have been. As clichéd as it sounds, the happiest and most exciting times of my life were spent in restaurants. Anthony Bourdain's books really heighten the nostalgia for my crazy, wild restaurant youth. You can't go home again, but you can reminisce about the bad old days, and smile.
I read a lot of the "chef type" books, and as the respectable 40 something lady that I am, I can put on the James Taylor, pour a great glass of Cab and thoroughly enjoy them. With Mr. Bourdain I can get out the Patron and crank up the NY Dolls. He steps to the end of the cliff, thinks better of it, and then jumps anyways. I like jumping with him.
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