Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook is a memoir by Anthony Bourdain and the follow-up to Bourdain's bestselling Kitchen Confidential. Medium Raw addresses Bourdain's rise to stardom following the success of Kitchen Confidential. No longer a cook and now finding himself a television personality, Bourdain gives his opinion on many of his fellow television chefs (most of whom, he argues, are not chefs at all due to never having worked in a restaurant) and how the restaurant industry has changed in the ten years since Kitchen Confidential was published.
Critical reception From Doug French:
From Geoff Nicholson of San Francisco Chronicle:
Samantha Nelson of The A.V. Club gave the book a C−:
Josh Ozersky of Time Magazine enjoyed the book:
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External links Review by Doug French of the Mises Institute