Kitchen confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly

A new introduction / by Eric Ripert

Appetizer: A note from the chef

First course: Food is good ; Food is sex ; Food is pain ; Inside the CIA ; The return of mal carne

Second course: Who cooks? ; From our kitchen to your table ; How to cook like the pros ; Owner's syndrome and other medical anomalies ; Bigfoot

Third course: I make my bones ; The happy time ; Chef of the future! ; Apocalypse now ; The wilderness years ; What I know about meat ; Pinot noir : Tuscan interlude

Dessert: A day in the life ; Sous-chef ; The level of discourse ; Other bodies ; Adam real-last-name-unknown ; Department of human resources ; The life of Bryan ; Mission to Tokyo ; So you want to be a chef? : a commencement address ; Kitchen's closed ; Interview with Daniel Halpern.