Medium Raw (book)

[2]From Geoff Nicholson of San Francisco Chronicle: His new book, "Medium Raw," is subtitled "A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook," and much of it reads more like a poison-pen letter than a love note ...

"A loud, egotistical, one-note -hole who's been cruising on the reputation of one obnoxious, over-testosteroned book for way too long," "the angry, cynical, snarky guy who says mean things on 'Top Chef,' " "the very picture of the jaded, overprivileged 'foodie.'

Club gave the book a C−: Ten years ago, Bourdain was a proud member of a strange, somewhat criminal outcast culture, and he produced a work that really didn't need a follow-up.

[4]Josh Ozersky of Time Magazine enjoyed the book: There is no more honest man in the media than Tony Bourdain.

Happily, that anger is still white and pure after all these years; it burns away all the impurities of the food-media fog that is now his habitat.