Gastronomy 2021 Catalogue

9 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s G a s t r o n o m y 2 0 2 1 Inscribed By Anthony Bourdain 9. BOURDAIN, Anthony. Medium Raw. A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook. New York, 2010. Octavo, original half black and blue paper boards, dust jacket. $600. Click for more info First edition of Bourdain’s highly anticipated successor to Kitchen Confidential, boldly inscribed: “To K— Anthony Bourdain.” Bourdain, who died in 2018, is remembered as a man who “built his career on the telling of truth… Bourdain effectively created the ‘bad-boy chef’ persona, but over time he began to see its ill effects on the restaurant industry. With Medium Raw , his 2010 follow- up to Kitchen Confidential , he tried to retell his story from a place of greater wisdom: the drugs, the sex… they were not a blueprint but a cautionary tale” ( New Yorker ). A fine inscribed copy.