Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain (English) Paperback Book

Description: Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose, Langdon Foss In a not-too-distant future of food obsessed LA, where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurant, Jiro, a renegade and ruthless sushi chef, arrives in town with strong ideas of his own. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Mysterious sushi chef Jiro arrives in futuristic, food-obsessed Los Angeles to take on the citys biggest celebrity chefs.ANew York TimesBestsellerIn a not-too-distant future L.A. where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurants, a bloody culinary war is raging.On one side, the Internationalists, who blend foods from all over the world into exotic delights. On the other, the "Vertical Farm," who prepare nothing but organic, vegetarian, macrobiotic dishes. Into this maelstrom steps Jiro, a renegade and ruthless sushi chef, known to decapitate patrons who dare request a California Roll, or who stir wasabi into their soy sauce. Both sides want Jiro to join their factions. Jiro, however has bigger ideas, and in the end, no chef may be left alive!Anthony Bourdain, top chef, acclaimed writer (Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw) and star of the hit travel show, No Reservations, co-writes with Joel Rose (Kill Kill Faster Faster, The Blackest Bird) this stylized send-up of food culture and society, with detailed and dynamic art by Langdon Foss. Notes An original graphic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and Medium Raw, co-written by the writer of La Pacifica and Kill Kill Faster. Set in a not-too-distant future this epic novel also features the detailed and dynamic art of Langdon Floss. Author Biography Born in 1956, Anthony Bourdain graduated from the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America. He began running New York kitchens at restaurants such as Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivans. His extensive body of work has graced the pages of The Times, New York Times, Observer, the Face, and Scotland on Sunday. He is an ongoing contributor and authority for Food Arts magazine. Bourdains fictional works include two crime novels - 1997s Gone Bamboo and Bone in the Throat in 1995. His book Kitchen Confidential- Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly was a bestseller, with an updated edition published in 2007. In 2002, the Food Network debuted what would become a twenty-two episode series featuring Bourdain circling the globe and feeding his adventure eating habit with the most extreme cuisine the world had to offer. The inspired bestselling book, A Cooks Tour In Search of the Perfect Meal, met with huge success in the United Kingdom and the United States.Joel Roses most recent novel is The Blackest Bird, which has been translated into 13 languages. Previous books include Kill the Poor, Kill Kill Faster Faster (both of which have been made into films), and New York Sawed in Half. For DC Comics, he wrote the graphic novels LA PACIFICA and THE BIG BOOK OF THUGS. Review "Get Jiro!" unfolds in a dystopian version of Los Angeles where todays (mostly) polite and academic discussions about food have evolved into grisly gastronomic feuds.... In some ways, "Get Jiro!" represents a coming-full-circle thing for Mr. Bourdain."—The New York Times"Whats an ex-yakuza enforcer turned sushi chef to do, ask culinary expert and author Bourdain (Medium Raw) and co-writer Joel Rose (La Pacifica) in this boisterous lampooning of food culture, a pet project for Bourdain, who seems to revel in the unrestrained narrative allowed in a comic book. Their answer will be enjoyable to anyone versed in samurai revenge stories or the films of Sam Peckinpah.... The books saving grace is the wonderfully clean and detailed art by an all-star team of artists led by illustrator Foss, whose meticulously researched and composed visuals mirror Jiros precision with a knife and produce equally appetizing results."—Publishers Weekly"Bourdain...promised an ultra-violent slaughter-fest over culinary arcane, and he delivers pretty much exactly that....Bourdain lets his foodie id run wild, extolling the elegant simplicity of a peasant dish like pot-au-feu here and caving in skulls with sauté pans there. Foss stubby, dough-faced figures walk a fine line between goofy and thuggish, and fall apart with great ickiness when dismembered. Equal parts blunt culinary opinion-mongering and satiric takedown of the very same chef-worship culture Bourdain helped create, this amusing diversion coasts comfortably in the wake of the standard bearer of gore-soaked foodie comics..."—Booklist Review Quote "Get Jiro!" unfolds in a dystopian version of Los Angeles where todays (mostly) polite and academic discussions about food have evolved into grisly gastronomic feuds.... In some ways, "Get Jiro!" represents a coming-full-circle thing for Mr. Bourdain."- The New York Times "Whats an ex-yakuza enforcer turned sushi chef to do, ask culinary expert and author Bourdain (Medium Raw) and co-writer Joel Rose (La Pacifica) in this boisterous lampooning of food culture, a pet project for Bourdain, who seems to revel in the unrestrained narrative allowed in a comic book. Their answer will be enjoyable to anyone versed in samurai revenge stories or the films of Sam Peckinpah.... The books saving grace is the wonderfully clean and detailed art by an all-star team of artists led by illustrator Foss, whose meticulously researched and composed visuals mirror Jiros precision with a knife and produce equally appetizing results."- Publishers Weekly "Bourdain...promised an ultra-violent slaughter-fest over culinary arcane, and he delivers pretty much exactly that....Bourdain lets his foodie id run wild, extolling the elegant simplicity of a peasant dish like pot-au-feu here and caving in skulls with saut Details ISBN1401228283 Author Langdon Foss Year 2013 ISBN-10 1401228283 ISBN-13 9781401228286 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title GET JIRO Pages 160 Language English Residence NY, US Illustrator Langdon Foss Imprint DC Comics Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations Audience Age 16 UK Release Date 2013-05-07 AU Release Date 2013-05-07 NZ Release Date 2013-05-07 US Release Date 2013-05-07 Birth 1939 Affiliation both Research Scientists, Batelle Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio Position both Research Scientists Qualifications PhD Publisher DC Comics Publication Date 2013-05-07 DEWEY 741.5 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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