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JGV : a life in 12 recipes / Jean-Georges Vongerichten ; with Michael Ruhlman.

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by Vongerichten, Jean-Georges, author.
Call Number 641.5092 VON
Publication Date 2019
Summary "One of the most influential chef-restaurateurs of all time reflects on a career defined by surprising, delicious food. Jean- Georges Vongerichten was born into a coal- business family in rural Alsace. He didn't enroll at a top culinary program. He was kicked out of high school at age fifteen. How, then, did he find himself apprenticing with the most renowned chefs, opening restaurants across the world, and cementing his legacy in the New York City food scene? JGV is Vongerichten's passionate answer, his life and the recipes that moved him. With humor and heart, he opens up as never before, telling the story of his mother's goose stew, enlivened with a coffee slurry, and of his first taste of tom yum kung soup, served hot at a stand off a Bangkok highway. Every story is full of wisdom, conveyed with the magnanimity and precision that has made this chef's name. With old handwritten menus and black- and- white photographs throughout, this is a book for young chefs, as well as anyone who has stood at a stove and wondered what might be"--
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No Experience Necessary [electronic resource] : The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken

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by Van Aken, Norman.
Call Number 641.5092
Publication Date 2013
Summary No Experience Necessary is Chef Norman Van Aken's joyride of a memoir. In it he spans twenty-plus years and nearly as many jobs-including the fateful job advertisement in the local paper for a short-order cook with "no experience necessary." Long considered a culinary renegade and a pioneering chef, Van Aken is an American original who chopped and charred, sweated and seared his way to cooking stardom with no formal training, but with extra helpings of energy, creativity, and faith. After landing on the deceptively breezy shores of Key West, Van Aken faced hurricanes, economic downturns, an
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Grant Achatz [electronic resource] : The Remarkable Rise of America's Most Celebrated Young Chef / Chicago Tribune Staff.

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by Chicago Tribune (Firm).
Call Number 641.5092 ACH
Publication Date 2012
Summary A collection of articles taken from the Chicago Tribune , this book is an up-close examination of chef Grant Achatz's personal history and international impact in the culinary world, from his expansion of modern culinary trends and series of world-renowned, top-rated restaurants.
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Profiles from the kitchen : what great cooks have taught us about ourselves and our food / Charles A. Baker-Clark.

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by Baker-Clark, Charles Allen.
Call Number 641.5092273
Publication Date 2006
Summary In Profiles from the Kitchen, Charles A. Baker-Clark offers a collection of portraits of well-known culinary figures who have worked in different ways to shape our relationship with food. Despite their diverse personalities, backgrounds, and interests, Baker-Clark's subjects are a testament to the fact that both cooking and eating are endeavors well worth learning and sustaining. Profiles from the Kitchen includes well-known food writers such as M.F.K. Fisher, Eugene Walter, Elizabeth David, and John T. Edge; famous cooks such as Julia Child and James Beard; and contemporary chefs such as Rick.
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Emeril! : inside the amazing success of today's most popular chef / Marcia Layton Turner.

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by Turner, Marcia Layton
Call Number 926.4 TUR
Publication Date 2004
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