A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. From journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional, Anthony Bourdain found himself holed up in the Carribean, driving drunk and way too fast over unlit golf courses and along cliff edges. Something had to change. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present, tracking his strange and unexpected voyage and pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs in New York, and delving into the real nature of fatherhood, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.