Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyModern · Nonfiction, Memoir, Food
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
2000 · 312 pages · Nonfiction
60
Modern
★ 4.20 on Goodreads · 414K ratings
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
#1 New York Times bestseller (4 weeks at #1). 4.20★ from 414K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
60Must-Read Score
- Readers80 out of 100 · counts 40%+37
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Bestseller64 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+23
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #51 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #118 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #270 of the 1,404 books we rank
Bestseller
- #1 New York Times bestseller (4 weeks at #1)
Reads as
True story
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