Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen… by Jason Sheehan
“The best of [the new chef memoirs] by a mile… by a former chef of no particular distinction named Jason Sheehan, now an extraordinarily good food writer… Cooking Dirty is his account of a career spent largely at what he calls ‘the low end of the culinary world’: late-night shifts at diners, bars and neighborhood joints. Some of it is pure drudgery — like prepping a ‘literal ton of corned-beef briskets’ at an Irish pub the week before St. Patrick’s Day — but when the orders start pouring in, the pace and chaos and heat in even a low-end kitchen somehow fuse into a kind of mass lunatic joy. ‘I am God of the box,’ he writes, ‘the brain-damaged Lord Commander of a kingdom of fifty feet by five and made entirely of stainless steel, industrial tile, knives, sweat and fire.’” —Time
US$17 Amazon. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition (June 23, 2009)
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