Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

¡ HarperAudio ¡ Narrated by Anthony Bourdain
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99 reviews
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8 hr 59 min
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Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, Alice Waters, the Top Chef winners and losers, and many more. If Hunter S. Thompson had written a book about the restaurant business, it could have been Medium Raw.

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4.8
99 reviews
W.K. (aSavagePrincess)
May 25, 2019
Anthony is truly missed. Listening to his quick witted, foul mouthed, completely honest opinions about his life, hilarious experiences & his thoughts as he's narrating his own book just really reminds me how genuine & open he was & i really wish someone could have seen what he was going thru and maybe helped him. I have learned alot thru out the years watching his shows!💙
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Jennifer Graziano
May 25, 2025
Origin of the alphabet; number line, computer is the same place. There isn't a calendar without a programmer; different ones in society are for companies to supply basic utilities; motor vehicles, food clothes & shelter. Computer programs give the answers to outstanding questions; humans do not. They also drive all artificial moving objects; humans do not. One program designs all the building and a different one does cars; the program includes after they are built schedules for them and us. Cameras are a derivative of computer separate from video recorder for unreal pictures and photograph obstructing justice to disappear or vanish includes video tapes & DVD's.
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Morgan Hoxie
July 27, 2018
Can't get better than 8 hours of Bourdain narrating his own book. Always entertaining, and with a good bunch of legitimately laugh-out-loud metaphors and anecdotes.
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About the author

Anthony Bourdain was the author of the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, World Travel, and Appetites and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. His work appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018.

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