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200 Kitchens: Confessions of a Nomad Cook
Paperback
Culinary BiographiesCookbooks GeneralHumor
ISBN13: 9780987643001
Publisher: Gawain Barker
Published: Feb 24 2019
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
A lot can happen in 200 kitchens.
A giant razor-clawed lizard attack. An ecstasy overdose on a busy service. A stripper in the cold-room. A twenty-eight-hour day and a hundred-and eight-hour week. Dish-pigs on acid and billionaire special forces bodyguards. Burnt genitalia and the spine-nipple. Not to mention a whole lot of love, hate, madness and magic.
From tropical beaches to corporate skyscrapers and into the homes of the super-rich. At the big food shows, rural vineyards and week-long music festivals. From inner-city restaurants to remote resorts - it's all in a day's work for a gypsy knife-for-hire.
Beyond the food, sex, drugs and laughter, 200 Kitchens is also about the psychology and politics of an industry where permanent physical damage and going insane are not only possible - but very likely.See what it takes to give serious pleasure while in serious pain.
Take a trip through three decades of the bizarre and beautiful and step into biggest variety of kitchens imaginable. From a Pacific Island childhood to working with the superstar TV chefs, this true-life story is a celebration of the world's oldest pleasure.
200 Kitchens is a thought-provoking and very funny odyssey through the magic of cooking . . . and where it can take you.
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