Medium Raw

Subtitled 'A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,' Medium Raw is Anthony Bourdain's long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential.

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business - and for Anthony Bourdain.

And always he returns to the question: 'Why cook?' Or the harder one to answer: 'Why cook well?' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.