Category: Reviews

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

[rating=4] If you’re an aspiring chef, hoping to preview the glamorous life of celebrity sightings and slavishly devoted patrons that lies before you, this book will be a sharp kick to the gonads/ovaries. Bourdain does not paint a pretty picture of the NYC restaurant scene, but I will say, he writes about ghoulish goings-on with […]

A Quiver Full Of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer

[rating=3] Thank goodness Jeffrey Archer got a Baronetcy in 1992. The man has an unhealthy preoccupation with rank, status, and money (as this collection of short stories will attest). Written in 1980, ‘A Quiver Full of Arrows’ features vignettes of a simpler time, before email and cellular phones and Twitter and Facebook cluttered up our […]