A Man’s Man’s World
Steven Shapin: Kitchens, 30 November 2000
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain.
Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £16.99, August 2000,0 7475 5072 7 Show More
by Anthony Bourdain.
Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £16.99, August 2000,
“... One of the defining sites for modern social science was the doorway dividing the kitchen from the dining-room in an early 1950s Shetland hotel. On the kitchen side of the door casually employed crofters swiped their filthy fingers through any passing pudding they found particularly toothsome; smelly socks hung steaming on tea-kettles; and butter partially unused by guests was reshaped for later diners’ consumption ... ”