Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

This is a great book for everyone, foodie, aspiring chef, restaurant goer, person who eats, anyone.  While the narrative isn't linear, it does keep your attention while not becoming gratuitous with all the wildly inappropriate parts thrown together (which they likely would be if it were written in order).  The characters and stories are vibrant in a way only real-world stories can be.  It both scares and entices one to enter the food world. Bourdain's passion drips off every page.  I'm considering returning to the restaurant world part-time for some low-key job.  There's so much of it I haven't seen yet and want to learn.  (No busing a table isn't difficult, but in every simple task, there are tricks that you learn if you do it long enough, or if someone tells you. I'd like to learn all those.)