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Pros

I believe bourdain's personality exists in both the tommy and the chef characters. Kitchen confidential is a chef's confidential report.

The language is a tad rough for the genteel set, but perfect for the story. His characters are believable and 3 dimensional.

Benevolent protagonists get caught up in mafia meat heads jockeying for position. Fans of no reservations or a cook's tour will easily recognize the macabre humor.

I was mesmerized by this book. While it's not the story i would have given to my sunday school teacher as a child, it is a story i'd have shared with my drill instructor. I'da buy 'nother your good book.

Tommy is the sous-chef at the dreadnought restaurant. Uncle sal is a second tier mobster. Other characters are a chef dealing with a * problem and a sous chef trying to leave the mob life.

Cons

Book has repetitive dialogue - maybe thugs talk like that, but it is boring, tiresome reading. Kindle version has several blank pages (maybe more than one page missing each time and i am at 65 per cent of the book), creating reading vacuums as you rea... Read More

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Quality

I have read all of tonys kitchen chronicles and bone in the throat was a marvelous mafia mystery intertwined with the life of ... Read More

Im not quite done with the book

The characters had a realness to them that only bourdain could achieve with his familiarity with the restaurant and drug scene in ny

Competitiveness

Other characters are a chef dealing with a heroin problem and a sous chef trying to leave the mob life

Been a culinary hero since i read his first book

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This product had a total of 635 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 30 2022.