# Medium Raw A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People who Cook

**'As ferociously rude as anything Bourdain has done before'** _Guardian_  
**'Terrific ... His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings'** _Telegraph_  
**'Bourdain has insight, access and good taste, and he's a naturally engaging writer'** _New York Times_  
  
**Anthony Bourdain's long-awaited sequel to _Kitchen Confidential_, the worldwide bestseller**  
  
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.

## Details

- **Price:** 20.5 GBP
- **Vendor:** Bloomsbury
- **Type:** Anthony Bourdain

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