Medium Raw

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Author(s)	Anthony Bourdain
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Memoir
Publisher	Ecco
Publication date	June 8, 2010
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	304 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-0617-1894-7
Preceded by	No Reservations

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook is a memoir by Anthony Bourdain and the follow-up to Bourdain's bestselling Kitchen Confidential. Medium Raw addresses Bourdain's rise to stardom following the success of Kitchen Confidential. No longer a cook and now finding himself a television personality, Bourdain gives his opinion on many of his fellow television chefs (most of whom, he argues, are not chefs at all due to never having worked in a restaurant) and how the restaurant industry has changed in the ten years since Kitchen Confidential was published.^[1]

According to one critic, Bourdain "writes like he talks, except the writing is peppered with the F-word and similar technical terms presumably used in commercial kitchens. The pages flow in a stream-of-consciousness way that gives one the impression that the author is almost forced to purge these thoughts from his head to the page so he can manically move on to more adventure, which is what he seems to make a living doing on the Travel Channel."^[2]

References

1. ^ Staskiewicz, Keith (2010-06-10). "Anthony Bourdain talks about his new book, no longer being a chef, and the pain of watching the Food Network". Entertainment Weekly. http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/06/10/anthony-bourdain-talks-about-his-new-book-no-longer-being-a-chef-and-the-pain-of-watching-the-food-network/. Retrieved 2010-06-14. 
2. ^ French, Doug (2011-02-02) Raw Capitalism in the Restaurant World, Mises Institute

External links

• Review by Doug French of the Mises Institute