Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook.

BOURDAIN, Anthony.

Item Number: 134411

New York: Ecco, 2010.

First edition of the follow-up to Bourdain’s bestselling memoir Kitchen Confidential which addresses his rise to stardom and the evolving restaurant industry. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Mary, Anthony Bourdain.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison Saltzman. Jacket photograph by Melanie Dunea/CP.

"The kind of book you read in one sitting, then rush about annoying your coworkers by declaiming whole passages. Bourdain captures the world of restaurants and professionally cooked food in all its theatrical, demented glory" (USA Today).