His book Kitchen Confidential--part memoir, cookbook and tell-all--was a bestseller its first week out in 2000.

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His follow-up Medium Raw, due out Tuesday, chronicles how celebrity, constant travel, divorce, remarriage and a baby daughter have changed him and his take on food culture a decade after Kitchen Confidential's debut.

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