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

Anthony Bourdain

Jul 2010 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Anthony Bourdain

About this audiobook

Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, Alice Waters, the Top Chef winners and losers, and many more. If Hunter S. Thompson had written a book about the restaurant business, it could have been Medium Raw.

Ratings and reviews

Anthony is truly missed. Listening to his quick witted, foul mouthed, completely honest opinions about his life, hilarious experiences & his thoughts as he's narrating his own book just really reminds me how genuine & open he was & i really wish someone could have seen what he was going thru and maybe helped him. I have learned alot thru out the years watching his shows!💙

Can't get better than 8 hours of Bourdain narrating his own book. Always entertaining, and with a good bunch of legitimately laugh-out-loud metaphors and anecdotes.

not a fan. incoherent and not enjoyable. cool stories but you can't get into the book.

About the author

Anthony Bourdain was the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, the memoir A Cook’s Tour, and the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and Appetites. His work appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018.