If You Can Stand the Heat: Tales from Chefs and Restaurateurs - Softcover

Davis, Dawn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140281584 ISBN 13: 9780140281583

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1999

Synopsis

Presents profiles of well-known chefs, including Bobby Flay, Edna Lewis, and Rick Bayless, who share recipes and business tips

About this title

About the Author:

Dawn Davis is the editor of Recipe of Memory: Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine, a finalist for the prestigious Julia Child First Cookbook Award, the Julia Child Food Writing Award, and the James Beard Award for Writing. She lives in New York City.

Krista Olson is a photographer living in New York City. She worked at the James Beard Foundation as Event Coordinator between 1995 and 1997.

From Publishers Weekly:

This collection of career profiles of well-known chefs posits itself as a guide for those who fantasize about starting restaurants themselves. Chefs ask repeatedly: Have you got the stuff?. The family who founded Boston's French-Cambodian restaurant, the Elephant Walk, recounts a story of immigration and struggle. Harvard graduate Andrew Pforzheimer, who now owns three restaurants in Connecticut, trained, among other places, at a "jewel-box" restaurant (kitchen staffed by immigrants) in Beverly Hills, and Marc Jolis of Atlanta's Cafe Sunflower studied at a culinary school. None of the chefs makes the work sound easy, although Anthony Bourdain's tales of "snorting rails of coke that we'd run from one end of the bar to the other" may appeal to some. Davis includes informational sections such as a list of the 10 culinary schools with the highest enrollment and the top four reasons that restaurants fail, according to Gary Goldberg, director of the New School's Culinary Arts program. Each chef interviewed contributes one or more recipes (Marc Jolis's Sweet and Sour Lemongrass Saffronated Pasta with Apricots and Strawberries; Alan Wong's Grilled Lamb Chops with Macadamia-Coconut Crust, Cabernet Sauvignon Jus and Coconut-Ginger Cream), which are interesting but seem discordant with the body of this fairly encyclopedic vocational tool. BOMC selection. (Oct.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140281584
• ISBN 13: 9780140281583
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336