Cooking Dirty : Life, Love and Death in the Kitchen Paperback / softback
by Jason Sheehan
Paperback / softback
Description
From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at the age of fifteen, Jason Sheehan has worked at all kinds of restaurants across America, from Buffalo to Tampa to Albuquerque: at a French colonial and an all-night diner, at a crab shack just off the interstate and a fusion restaurant in a former hair salon.
In Cooking Dirty he tells the story of one man's addiction to the urgency, stress, and adrenalin of minimum-wage kitchen work.
His universe becomes 'a small, steel box filled with knives and meat and fire', where the kitchen is a fraternity with its own rites and initiations: cigarettes in the walk-in freezer, sex in the basement, drugs everywhere.
Restaurant cooking sets a series of seemingly endless personal challenges, from the first perfectly done mussel to the satisfaction of surgically sliced foie gras.
The kitchen itself is a place in which life's mysteries are thawed, sliced, broiled, barbecued, and fried - a place where people from the margins find their community and their calling.
Cooking Dirty is a passionate, funny, electrifying memoir of addiction: an addiction to kitchen work.
It reveals the hell and glory of restaurant life, as told by a survivor.
Jason Sheehan is his own unforgettable central character - edgy, driven, irresistible.
Eating out will never be the same again.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:01/02/2011
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- ISBN:9781848871908
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:01/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781848871908
