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  • Fried

    Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants

    by Steve Lerach ...
    For two hundred years, a rogues' gallery of chefs, line cooks, and dishwashers have slaved away, largely unseen, to serve the dining public. Their pedigrees reach back to the first restaurants during the reign of France's Louis XVI and extend to the Delmonico brothers in New York, Escoffier in Paris, and, in Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants, a renegade cook in Minneapolis walking like ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Perfect Chef

    by Todd Kliman ...
    Restaurant critics are supposed to maintain their distance about chefs and restaurateurs. Or so Todd Kliman had always maintained. But when Peter Chang, an emigre genius capable of turning ordinary food into small miracles, crossed his radar, he couldnt help himself. He becomes obsessed with Chang's cooking. When it turns out that the chef possesses both a checkered past and an increasingly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Apprentice Chef - Inside a London Kitchen

    by Simone Woods ...
    'The Apprentice Chef' gives a glimpse into life as an apprentice working in a famous London Michelin star restaurant……"…The thing about working in a kitchen is that you have to be an adrenalin junkie and a sucker for punishment. There is just no other reason for working in one. If you want to be a chef because you like to cook, then do so at home because working in a professional kitchen you will ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Accidental Chef

    An Insider's View of Professional Cooking

    Accidental Chef is a sobering account of what it's really like to be a professional chef, not the glamorized, sugar-coated depictions we see on cable television. This book offers a glimpse of what it really like to work in a hotel patry shop and a busy restaurant. When you read Accidental Chef you can't help feeling that you right there with Charles in the kitchen. Through his vivid descriptions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How I Learned To Cook

    Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs

    Before he was a top chef, Tom Colicchio learned to love cooking when he was still slinging burgers at a poolside snack bar. Barbara Lynch tells the story of lying her way into her first chef's job and then needing to cook her way out of trouble in the galley kitchen of a ship at sea. Stories of mentorship abound: Rick Bayless tells the story of finally working with Julia Child, his childhood hero; ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Beaten, Seared, and Sauced

    On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America

    Millions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school, and training to become a chef. But for those who make the decision, the difference between the dream and reality can be gigantic—especially at the top cooking school in the country. For the first time in the Culinary Institute of America’s history, a book will give readers the firsthand experience of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sous Chef

    24 Hours on the Line

    NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMEThe back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here readers will find all the details, in rapid-fire succession, of what it takes to deliver an exceptional ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentices

    A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's elBulli

    by Lisa Abend ...
    Kitchen Confidential meets Heat in the first behind-the-scenes portrait of the world’s most influential restaurant and the aspiring culinary geniuses who toiled to make it so exceptional.WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES AT ELBULLI?Elected best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine an unprecedented five times, elBulli is where chef Ferran Adrià’s remarkable cuisine comes to life—with dragon ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • I Call Him "Mr. President"

    Stories of Golf, Fishing, and Life with My Friend George H. W. Bush

    by Ken Raynor ...
    A Presidential Tale of Friendship, Travel, and the Great Outdoors—Newly Updated!In I Call Him “Mr. President”, Ken Raynor—head professional at Cape Arundel Golf Club in Kennebunkport, Maine, for thirty-eight years—tells the story of how President George H. W. Bush befriended him during Bush’s annual summer sabbatical to seaside Kennebunkport. Raynor’s personal relationship with Bush led him to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Restaurant Man

    **The New York Times Bestselling Book--Great gift for Foodies“The best, funniest, most revealing inside look at the restaurant biz since Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.” —Jay McInerney**With a foreword by Mario BataliJoe Bastianich is unquestionably one of the most successful restaurateurs in America—if not the world. So how did a nice Italian boy from Queens turn his passion for food and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Tastemakers

    A Celebrity Rice Farmer, a Food Truck Lobbyist, and Other Innovators Putting Food Trends on Your Plate

    by David Sax ...
    **A James Beard Award–winning journalist reveals the surprising forces that shape our eating habits“Sax is great company, a writer of real and lasting charm.” —New York Times Book Review**In this eye-opening, witty work of reportage, David Sax uncovers the world of food trends: where they come from, how they grow, and where they end up. Traveling from the South Carolina rice plot of America’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • It Must've Been Something I Ate

    The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything

    In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do anything to eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing three different fowl—into each other-- to produce the Cajun specialty called “turducken.”It ... Read more

    $5.99 USD