What is the title of chef Anthony Bourdain's first book?

The title of chef Anthony Bourdain’s first book is Bone in the Throat. Published in 1995, it is a culinary crime novel about a young chef caught between restaurant work, family pressures, and organized crime.

Bourdain wrote Bone in the Throat before becoming widely known as a chef-author and television host. The book drew on his experience working in professional kitchens and established food and restaurant culture as important elements of his writing.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly came later, in 2000. It became Bourdain’s breakthrough nonfiction book and is the work most commonly associated with his literary career. Its success followed his 1999 New Yorker essay “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.”

The flagged answer therefore identifies Bourdain’s best-known early book rather than his first book. The canonical answer to the question as written is Bone in the Throat, while Kitchen Confidential remains his first major nonfiction bestseller.