Kitchen Confidential

AUTHOR: Anthony Bourdain
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury
YEAR: 2000
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 1-58234-082-X
p. 73: The hyphen falls in the wrong place in a sentence break.
... these were the dar-
edevils, innovators and desperados.
p.115: A sentence starts with an unnecessary single quote.
'He was kind of charming, totally untrustworthy, conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command.
p. 137: A sentence is missing a semi-colon.
Bars close at 1 A.M. they start flashing the lights for last call at twelve-thirty.
p. 168: An I is missing.
In a subsequent meeting--and there would be many, as designing the new menu was a painstaking and tortuous affair--was informed that though I would be executive chef ...
p. 169: A though should be thought.
Good at the politics and shifting alliances of a big, essentially Italian business, good at the kind of stuff I though I'd always been good at.
p. 170: A failed should be fail.
He never said he'd do a thing for me and then failed to do it.
p. 261: An a is missing.
And if this isn't rich enough meal for you ...
p. 268: A pouring should be poring.
The bar was packed with monomaniacal wine aficionados, pouring over the 1,400-strong wine list like Talmudic scholars ...
p. 270: A close quote is missing.
'Beef bourguignon, he said right away.
p. 280: A bons most should be bon mots.
I was to cook a meal evocative of my earlier work of fiction for the benefit of the press, provide a few bons most at a press conference ...
p. 286: Possible stylistic decision. The word palates is repeated in an odd manner.
... as if any time now he'd find something too much for our barbarian palates and crude, unsophisticated palates.