The Devil in the Kitchen

副标题: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

ISBN: 9781596913615

出版社: Bloomsbury USA

出版年: 2007

页数: 256

定价: 193.00 元

装帧: hardcover

内容简介

Enfant terrible of the kitchen, White earned three Michelin stars leading the restaurant at London's Hyde Park Hotel, the very first British chef so lauded. Yorkshire-born into a sad childhood dominated by the early loss of his mother, the teenage White found his vocation working in a local hotel's kitchen. In uncensored prose, White portrays the arc of his career as it passed from this provincial dining room up to the pinnacle of culinary accomplishment at London's legendary Le Gavroche. Utterly focused on learning his craft, White absorbed the examples of master French chefs. Beyond White's personal triumph, his memoir documents the rapid evolution of British taste in the 1970s and 1980s, when growing affluence and sophistication among the British public encouraged restaurants to dump stodgy British cooking and welcome French-disciplined young chefs who could cook at least as well as their neighbors across the Channel.