Review: The Nasty BitsAvis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsThe globetrotting, guerrilla TV chef of ill repute serves up some journalistic odds and ends. A garrulous, sublimely talented chap with an eminently respectable couple of New York brasseries and a load of opinions to spare, Bourdain (A Cook's Tour, 2001, etc.) remains an anomaly in the Food Network era. Instead of running a chain of big-ticket, big-ego eateries, he roams the world consuming massive quantities of strange food and prodigious drink, adding snarky commentary and turning it all into a TV show of sorts. Along the way, he writes for several publications, from Gourmet to the Los Angeles Times; a good selection of those writings are collected here. Subjects include other celebrity chefs (Rocco DiSpirito "messed with the bitch goddess celebrity and got burned"), the best bars for adrenaline-jacked kitchen crews to get hammered in the wee hours (in Chicago, it's Matchbox) and the proper definition of cooking ("a cult of pain"); somehow it all flows together with nary a seam in view. But there is some repetition and, unlike most writers with an edge, he's better at being nice. Scourging attacks sometimes fall flat for lack of variety, while puff pieces offer the finest examples of foodie enthusiasm. Indulging in Masa Takayama's insanely expensive sushi is "like having sex with two five-thousand-dollar-a-night escorts at the same time—while driving an Aston Martin." The unfathomable wizardry of Spain's mad-chef genius Ferran Adria is "hugely enjoyable, challenging to the world order, innovative, revolutionary." A vibrant discourse on satisfying hungers of every kind. Commentaires des utilisateursReview: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - Allison - GoodreadsBourdain is at his best when he's writing about food, travel, or any combination of the two. Most of the essays in this book covered these topics, but I wasn't all that into the ones that strayed from ... Consulter l'avis complet Review: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - Bookworm Smith - GoodreadsBits. That is what this book is made of - Bits. Not entrails or chicken toes. Not those kind of bits. Just bits of writing. A short account of eating a seal. A page or two on where Chefs and other ... Consulter l'avis complet Review: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - Ian - GoodreadsI'm getting tired of writing reviews Consulter l'avis complet Review: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - Johnathan Weston - GoodreadsI found this collection of short works to be interesting and entertaining if not as engaging as Kitchen Confidential. The pieces are organized according to the basic tastes (bitter, salty, sweet, sour ... Consulter l'avis complet Review: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - Arjun Mishra - GoodreadsBourdain wins with me on this one. A grand slam home run, really. His first memoir/food book/diatribe/anthology, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly drew my ire in many regards ... Consulter l'avis complet Review: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - Katie - GoodreadsCount this as another book I randomly picked up that I ended up enjoying much more than I thought. I've never read "Kitchen Confidential," and even though I liked Bourdain on "No Reservations," I ... Consulter l'avis complet Review: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsI'm a big fan of Bourdain's KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL and A COOK'S TOUR. In those books, Bourdain mixed his signature egomaniac writing with knife-sharp insights into his flaws as a human being, chef and ... Review: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - Robin - Goodreads3.5 Bourdain fetishizes cooking as a kind of macho extreme sport and hates vegetarians - but he's a really good writer, and there's a sympathetic warmth to the stories that makes it easy for me to enjoy them, even though I'm sure in person the man would drive me crazy. Fun. Consulter l'avis complet Review: The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesAvis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsIt's almost impossible for me not to enjoy anything Bourdain writes, and The Nasty Bits is no exception. It's a collection of previously published and new, unpublished short non-fiction. The wonderful ... | Avis des utilisateurs| 5 étoiles | | | 4 étoiles | | | 3 étoiles | | | 2 étoiles | | | 1 étoile | |
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