Anthony Bourdain - Medium Raw

Served half-cooked like a soft boiled egg

Bourdain dishes out a follow-up to his best-selling Kitchen Confidential.  As the title suggests, it is half-cooked and I cant really tell the intent of the book because each chapter seems quite unrelated to the next.  In more than one chapter, he rants against the people and corporations he dislikes and if it was anyone else, i would have tuned out quite quickly.  However, since it is Bourdain, it comes across as quite entertaining to learn what is on his mind, and he also does not draw the line at putting his own self down.

What does come across, is his love for food and the industry.  When he attacks his enemies, it is because they go against his vision of what the industry and "good" food should be like, and in one chapter where he describes his favourite foods from across the globe, my stomach ended up growling.