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THE BOOK


The book, released in 2000 , is both Bourdain's professional Memoir and a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens.


THE TELEVISION SERIES


The , 2005 , Fox cancelled the series outright.


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: ''What most people don't get about professional-level cooking is that it is not at all about the best recipe, the most innovative presentation, the most creative marriage of ingredients, flavors and textures; that, presumably, was all arranged long before you sat down to dinner. Line cooking — the real business of preparing the food you eat — is more about consistency, about mindless, unvarying repetition, the same series of tasks performed over and over and over again in exactly the same way. The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator ... . Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.''


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