The Bourdain Box

Kitchen Confidential: This memoir offers an insider's look into the underbelly of the culinary world, detailing Anthony Bourdain's twenty-five years in professional kitchens, from dishwashing to fine dining. It reveals the raw reality with tales of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine, and famously advises customers on the workings and potential pitfalls of restaurants, such as avoiding fish on Mondays.
Medium Raw: A follow-up to Kitchen Confidential, this book explores the significant changes in the restaurant business, the subculture of chefs, and Bourdain's own life a decade later. It is described as a "bloody valentine" to the food world, featuring a series of confessions, rants, and interrogations of controversial figures in the culinary scene, such as David Chang and Alice Waters.