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Raw : My Autobiography, Paperback / softback Book

Raw : My Autobiography Paperback / softback

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Antony Worrall Thompson's passage to culinary stardom has not exactly been smooth.

Abandoned by his father, a Shakespearean actor, when he was just three, Antony was sexually abused and maltreated throughout his childhood.

Antony's story very nearly came to an abrupt halt at sixteen when his face was crushed in a horrific rugby accident, which left him badly disfigured and chronically insecure.

But pioneering surgery saved the day, enabling him to pursue what was to become the enduring love of his life - cooking.

After much hard graft and some close encounters of the violent gangster kind, AWT's flamboyant style as a restaurateur soon bought him to the attention of cookery's cognoscenti and today Antony is to the culinary establishment what a bull is to a china shop.

His no-nonsense style in the kitchen is loathed by a few, but loved by millions. Stuffed with hugely entertaining anecdotes and lightly sprinkled with AWT's no-holds-barred opinions, RAW is a heartrendingly honest story of triumph over adversity.

Along the way we go behind the scenes with the foodie mafia and Antony lifts the lid on a few triple-Michelin-starred scandals.

The knives (and the forks!) are very definitely out ...

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