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Cooks
As Thanksgiving occurs in the U.S. this months, homes will be filled with people cooking up delicious meals. Get inspired with stories of others who are brave enough to face down a saucepan. |
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
New York chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir and expos. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable. "Kitchen Confidential" reveals what Bourdain calls "25 years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine".
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventure as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
From Bill Buford, one of our most interesting literary figures--eight years as fiction editor at "The New Yorker"--comes a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. A marvelous hybrid, "Heat" offers a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure as well as an illuminating exploration of why food matters. |
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My Life in France by Julia Child
This delightful memoir of Julia's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence opens with Paul and Julia, a tall, wide-eyed girl from Pasadena who can't cook and doesn't speak a word of French, disembarking in Le Havre, and ends with the launching of the two "Mastering" cookbooks and Julia winning the heart of America as "The French Chef."
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The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America by Michael Ruhlman
Exploring the essence of becoming a chef, this book reveals the elusive, unnamable elements of great cooking.
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Don't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman
In this raucous new anthology, 30 of the world's greatest chefs relate outrageous true tales from their kitchens. From hiring a blind line cook to witnessing security guards attacking hungry customers, these accounts are wildly entertaining and revealing. |
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