MUNCHIES

This cookbook, based on the game-changing web series Chef's Night Out, features stories of the world's best chefs' debauched nights on the town, and recipes for the food they cook to soak up the booze afterwards.

MUNCHIES brings the hugely popular show Chef's Night Out (on VICE Media's food website, MUNCHIES) to the page with snapshots of food culture in cities around the world, plus tall tales and fuzzy recollections from 70 of the world's top chefs, including Anthony Bourdain, Dominique Crenn, David Chang, Danny Bowien, Wylie Dufresne, Inaki Aizpitarte, and Enrique Olvera, among others. Then there are the 65 recipes: dishes these chefs cook when they're done feeding customers, and ready to feed their friends instead. With chapters like "Drinks" (i.e., how to get your night started), "Things with Tortillas," "Hardcore" (which includes pizzas, nachos, poutines, and more), and "Morning After" (classy and trashy dishes for the bleary-eyed next day), MUNCHIES features more than 65 recipes to satisfy any late-night craving and plenty of drinks to keep the party going.

Chefs include:
            
Shion Aikawa 
Jen Agg 
Iñaki Aizpitarte 
Erik Anderson 
Sam Anderson 
Wes Avila 
Joaquin Baca 
Kyle Bailey 
Jonathan Benno 
Noah Bernamoff 
Jamie Bissonnette 
April Bloomfield 
Robert Bohr And Ryan Hardy 
Danny Bowien 
Anthony Bourdain 
Stuart Brioza And Nicole Krasinski 
Gabriela Cámara 
David Chang 
Han Chiang 
Michael Chernow And Dan Holtzman 
Leah Cohen 
Dominique Crenn 
Armando De La Torre 
Maya Erickson 
Konstantin Filippou 
Vanya Filopovic 
The Franks 
Paul Giannone 
Josh Gil 
Abigail Gullo 
Tien Ho 
Esben Holmboe Bang 
Brandon Jew 
Jessica Koslow 
Agatha Kulaga And Erin Patinkin 
Joshua Kulp And Christine Cikowski 
Taiji Kushima And Shogo Kamishima 
Arjun Mahendro And Nakul Mahendro 
Anne Maurseth 
Andrew Mcconnell 
Kavita Meelu 
Danny Minch 
Carlo Mirarchi 
Nicolai Nørregaard 
Masaru Ogasawara 
Enrique Olvera 
Matt Orlando 
Mitch Orr 
Rajat Parr 
Kevin Pemoulie 
Frank Pinello 
Rosio Sánchez 
Brad Spence 
Alon Shaya 
Phet Schwader 
Michael Schwartz 
Callie Speer 
Jeremiah Stone And Fabian Von Hauske 
Dale Talde 
Lee Tiernan 
Christina Tosi 
Isaac Toups 
Anna Trattles And Alice Quillet 
Alisa Reynolds 
Grant Van Gameren 
Michael White 
Andrew Zimmern

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