I'm not going to nominate this book because it's just too expensive at $11.99 US, and even more elsewhere, but an excellent fit for this category is Anthony Bourdain's wonderful and funny
Kitchen Confidential. From Goodreads:
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A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material.
New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."
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If you've never read it, I highly recommend it.