After twenty-five years of `sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine`, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain`s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.