Appetites: A Cookbook

One of the only cookbooks I own that I've actually used cover to cover. Delicious and practical, Bourdain's opinions aren't subtle, but they do encourage you to cook your meals the way you prefer them, no apologies.  Recommended By SitaraG, Powells.com

Appetites is full-force Anthony Bourdain; it's opinionated, creative, and one hell of a good cookbook. Culinary bad boy Bourdain is a daddy now, and these are the home recipes that he feeds his family. Appetites is a fun read and a delicious eat. Recommended By Tracey T., Powells.com

Anthony Bourdain is man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he’s cooking, it’s for family and friends.

Appetites, his first cookbook in more than ten years, boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a tight repertoire of personal favorites — dishes that everyone should (at least in Mr. Bourdain’s opinion) know how to cook. Once the supposed "bad boy" of cooking, Mr. Bourdain has, in recent years, become the father of a little girl — a role he has embraced with enthusiasm. After years of traveling more than 200 days a year, he now enjoys entertaining at home. Years of prep lists and the hyper-organization necessary for a restaurant kitchen, however, have caused him, in his words, to have "morphed into a psychotic, anally retentive, bad-tempered Ina Garten."

The result is a home-cooking, home-entertaining cookbook like no other, with personal favorites from his own kitchen and from his travels, translated into an effective battle plan that will help you terrify your guests with your breathtaking efficiency.

"Appetites, in addition to presenting an eclectic, expletive-laden portrait of one’s family’s fare, is also a really great cookbook." BookForum

"Bourdain is back with his inimitable voice-funny, foul-mouthed, and unapologetically opinionated-in this tightly curated collection of recipes…a cookbook that should be on every library’s food shelves." Booklist (Starred Review)

"In what might be his most accessible book yet, Bourdain reveals his "Ina Garten-like need to feed the people around me" with a terrific collection of recipes for family and friends." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo, in addition to the mega-bestseller Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and he is a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine. He is the host of the popular television show "Parts Unknown."