Kitchen Confidential is not really for me - I washed out of the service industry after a couple of months while Anthony Bourdain made cooking his life and he explicitly wrote the book for long time back of house folks like him. Luckily, I’m a little better at the work I do these days and I make a lot more money for work that feels a lot easier than cooking, taking orders, and trying to avoid getting robbed all at once in a Waffle House at 3 AM. That job, making $20 dollars in tips on a great night, was enough to show me I was never going to make it in the service industry. Most of the time, the cook working with me was too high to work so he slept in the back while I cooked eggs, bacon, and waffles for a couple tables each hour. I waited tables for 2 dollars an hour, serving coffee and greasy food to drunks for 9 hours and then driving 45 minutes home at 6 in the morning. One of my first jobs was waiting tables on the third shift at Waffle House, an institution in the southern US, famous for (almost) never closing. Back to all books Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Review: 4 / 5
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |