Anthony Bourdain returns to the vintage bestseller that made him a star in this special revised paperback edition cleverly redesigned in a small trim-perfect for tucking in an apron pocket or a chef's whites. Kitchen Confidential, Insider's Edition, includes a new handwritten introduction and annotations on over fifty pages that provide new insight and commentary from the distance of a decade and a radically changed food world.

Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. From his first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he witnessed for the first time the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the East Village; from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of kitchen life are funny, passionate, unpredictable, and enlightening.