THE MYTH OF ANTHONY BOURDAIN: HOW THE BAD BOY CHEF BECAME A HERO TO BOOZEHOUNDS AND BULLIES

The author of Kitchen Confidential has inspired a new movie, Tony, about his days as a dishwasher. But do today’s chefs still admire his self-sabotaging rock’n’roll spirit – or have they outgrown it?

The Guardian reports that the author of Kitchen Confidential has inspired a new movie, Tony, about his days as a dishwasher.

The report adds: But do today’s chefs still admire his self-sabotaging rock’n’roll spirit – or have they outgrown it?

The trope of the Angry Young Man was not born in a kitchen, but Anthony Bourdain’s particular myth-making created what might be the prototype for fin de (20th) siècle masculinity.

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