经过28年的放浪形骸之后，身兼大厨和小说家双重身份的安东尼·伯尔顿决定把他的故事和盘托出。从他在Gironde第一次吃牡蛎，到他在普罗温斯城的一个低级嘈杂的餐馆里当地位低下的洗碗工；从洛克菲勒大厦顶层彩虹会所的厨房到纽约东区的毒品地；从东京到巴黎，再回到纽约，伯尔顿厨房里的故事既出乎意料又充满激情，既滑稽可笑又令人震惊。

A Czech immigrant in 1960s America escapes into musicals while working long hours in poverty. Struggling with hereditary blindness, she is determined to secure her son’s future and will sacrifice everything to ensure he receives the operation that could spare him from her fate.

Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.