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by Anthony Bourdain · about this book

Loved Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain? If its nonfiction, memoir & biography and chef or baker hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, Trump and Sam Walton: Made In America. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Chef or Baker · Autobiography · First Person Narrator

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