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Salt, Sweat & Steam: The Fiery Education of an Accidental Chef
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ISBN10: 1250333377
ISBN13: 9781250333377
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.08
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.56 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250333377
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.08
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.56 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
High pressure. Hot kitchens. A memoir of ambition, belonging, and coming-of-age in America's premiere culinary school.
Her fast-moving coming-of-age memoir will appeal to anyone who's been curious about culinary school.--Eater
Rich with detail, Salt, Sweat & Steam takes readers inside America's top culinary school and shows what's really required to become a chef: from brutal unpaid internships and gruelling practical exams to late-night vending machine dorm-room dinners while trudging through the rarefied world of fine wine. As editor of the school's newspaper, La Papillote Washington, a Trinidadian, meets and interviews food-world luminaries such as Jerome Bocuse, Daniel Boulud and Thomas Keller and savors the joys of a life devoted to food. She puts us all in her kitchen clogs as she finally achieves the perfect mise-en-place both in and out of the dignified kitchen of The Culinary Institute of America. Unwilling to accept a future that was anything but delicious, readers follow along Washington's high-octane journey through the rigors and rewards of the country's most elite cooking school.
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