The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

Anthony Bourdain

Dec 2008 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA

About this ebook

New York Times Bestseller

The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.

Bestselling chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn't want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever.

Bringing together the best of his previously uncollected nonfiction--and including new, never-before-published material--The Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike.

Ratings and reviews

I still mourn the loss of this man, and I have a hard time believing the official story of his death. Nevertheless, he was a brilliantly funny writer and he wrote how he spoke. No book on tape is needed for this book. This and Kitchen Confidential are two of the best books on the foodservice industry ever written, (Lessons in Service is another good one) and Bourdain's viewpoint is wonderfully presented. Bourdain's works were love letters to the industry, and to the people inside of it. I highly recommend this book to anyone that liked Bourdain's TV works, or anyone that is in foodservice and likes a good read.

Always an easy and interesting read. Wasn't as all-nighter inducing as his other non-fiction works but still a really fun read.

Couldnt put this book down so interesting look forward to reading his other books

About the author

Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote the New York Times bestselling memoirs Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and A Cook's Tour; the collection The Nasty Bits; the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo; the biography Typhoid Mary; and the cookbooks Appetites and Les Halles Cookbook.

Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning docuseries Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy Award–winning No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC.