Medium raw : a bloody valentine to the world of food and the people who cook
- London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2011
- 281p.
Table of Contents: 1. Selling out 2. The Happy Ending 3. The Rich Eat Differently Than You and Me 4. I Drink Alone 5. So You Wanna Be a Chef 6. Virtue 7. The Fear 8. Lust 9. Meat 10. Lower Education 11. I'm Dancing 12. "Go Ask Alice" 13. Heroes and Villains 14. Alan Richman ls a Douchebag 15. "I Lost on Top Chef 16. It's Not You, It's Me" 17. The Fury 18. My Aim Is True 19.The Fish-on-Monday Thing
This book examines these alterations by bouncing back and forth between the author's awful old days and the present day. Bourdain compares and contrasts what he has seen and what he is seeing, halting along the way for confessions, rants, investigations, and interviews with some of the most contentious characters in gastronomy. And he continually returns to the question, "Why cook?" Or the more difficult question: "Why cook well?" Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs that he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his signature, no-holds-barred manner, gets to the marrow of every subject he addresses.