Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

my wife's like, before I started watching him, my wife read Kitchen Confidential's ... and my wife's like, this guy's fucking amazing, Bert.

It was about this and about that transition going from, you know, the crime scene photography to astrology overnight so he could get into supermarkets. He said the Enquirer staff was aghast. It was like asking an experienced team of grave robbers to take up gardening.

We chose Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, a total classic.

Did you read that book? I did. I loved it, but I'm an addict, so I like any addict that are. He was the first guy who didn't sugarcoat anything, and I love that.

And had you read Kitchen Confidential at any point before you started? Of course.

I was like the idiot young cook who's like, oh this is fucking sick doing blow and staying up all night and boozing it. It's this romanticization of the lifestyle.

I feel like every young cook either watches Top Chef or something had to get you to wanna do it and definitely Tony Bourdain's stuff.

Yeah, I read that book with zero interest in ever being a cook and I was like, oh I would have loved that world. Now I was already sober when I read it but I was like, that would have been great for me.

And had you read Kitchen Confidential at any point before you started? Of course. I was like the idiot young cook who's like, oh this is fucking sick doing blow and staying up all night and boozing it.

I read Kitchen Confidential when it first came out.

I find out he's a junkie.

I had read Kitchen Confidential when it first came out.

And had you read Kitchen Confidential at any point before you started? Of course.

I was like the idiot young cook who's like oh this is fucking sick doing blow and staying up all night and boozing it. It's this romanticization of the lifestyle.

I read that book with zero interest in ever being a cook and I was like oh I would have loved that world.

Now, this was right around the time I was reading Kitchen Confidential and watching just about every gritty TV drama and movie there was about chef life. And it turns out that at its core, all of it is pretty accurate.

I didn't even know about a lot of this until I read Anthony Bourdain's book.

I didn't even know about a lot of this until I read Anthony Bourdain's book.

I didn't even know about a lot of this until I read Anthony Bourdain's book. And I remember being like, oh my god! I'm like what are you people doing back there?

First he had a New York Times bestselling book in their year 2000 titled, Kitchen Confidential, Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, bestselling book.

Which I understand is a very accurate account.

first he had a New York Times best-selling book in their year 2000 titled Kitchen Confidential, Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.

In fact, first he had a New York Times bestselling book in their year 2000 titled, Kitchen Confidential, Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, bestselling book.

And if I could have dinner with one person, it probably would be Anthony Bourdain. I don't know, he was someone I really admired. He cooked you a fine meal obviously, plus you just have incredible stories from all over the world. He's someone with such a unique perspective. Whenever I watched him on TV or read his book, catch it confidential, he had just really unique perspectives on things.

I know Anthony Bourdain has thoughts about eggs Benedict. I would say welcome to food you never order anytime, any place, unless you're at home making the hollandaise sauce fresh on a Sunday morning made with the dew of Mount Olympus and the tears of an angel. I never recommend getting hollandaise sauce. It goes incredibly bad immediately and it's like you're eating a garbage pail kid. Wow. Did not know that. That was a review I just read. That's from a kitchen confidential. He also said don't order fish on Monday. That's right. Don't order fish on Monday unless you're going to a brothel.

It just goes to show that, you know, mental health is not someone's mental health is not always apparent, you know, if they can seem very happy and they can seem like they're living their best life. But then, you know, there can also be kind of demons underneath the surface and certainly turned out to be the case with Bourdain.

And it's really caused a lot of news agencies and publications, etc. to really start to have, you know, kind of ethical conversations around this stuff.

So obviously, a documentary film is intended to be entertaining. But what happens when you take the voice of a man who is beloved as Anthony Bourdain was and recreate it using artificial intelligence by feeding it dozens and dozens of hours of available recordings?

And if you're someone that says a bunch of a public figure as Anthony Bourdain, it's going to be, you know, tenfold that what it would be for, you know, folks like us.

So it's like almost like the whole idea or the the I guess the gimmick for lack of a better word is that it's Anthony Bourdain telling his story in his own voice, you know, pulled from different audio books and all the sources that I just mentioned.

And it just goes to show that, you know, mental health is not someone's mental health is not always apparent, you know, if they can seem very happy and they can seem like they're living their best life.

But this is about ethics in film making.

And it's really caused a lot of news agencies and publications, etc. to really start to have, you know, kind of ethical conversations around this stuff.

But what happens when you take the voice of a man who is beloved as Anthony Bourdain was and recreate it using artificial intelligence by feeding it dozens and dozens of hours of available recordings?

So it's like almost like the whole idea or the the I guess the gimmick for lack of a better word is that it's Anthony Bourdain telling his story in his own voice, you know, pulled from different audio books and all the sources that I just mentioned.

It's a new documentary about the beloved traveler, world traveler, chef, you know, rec on tour, Anthony Bourdain, who tragically took his own life.

And it just goes to show that, you know, mental health is not someone's mental health is not always apparent, you know, if they can seem very happy and they can seem like they're living their best life.

But this is about ethics in film making.

So it's like almost like the whole idea or the the I guess the gimmick for lack of a better word is that it's Anthony Bourdain telling his story in his own voice, you know, pulled from different audio books and all the sources that I just mentioned.

So it's like the next level kind of powered up version of what they do in the reality television, a lot of what's called frankenbiting, where they take clips of audio, the things that people have said.

I never thought like originally when his book came out Kitchen Confidential, I think a lot of people in the culinary world was like, whatever, this guy was a middling cook.