Chef biography books

There is a special skill required to making food sound interesting on the pages of a book and that means you should pick your food memoirs carefully. Publishers see 'foodoirs' as a lucrative genre these days and if I see another one about moving to France and cooking traditional French cuisine I may go mad.

Food memoirs can be divided into three main categories - finding and/or growing food, making food and eating food - but these often merge. Books about the histories of particular foods can be very interesting but we're dealing here with memoirs - books about real-life experiences. The best food memoirs go way beyond the food and into someone's reality - food memoirs can be deeply revealing about families and working environments.

Several memoirs have been particularly influential. Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential was published in 2000 and helped develop the cult of the chef. It's a gritty account of life in professional kitchens with as much b

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The Best Chef Autobiographies to Read This Summer

H/t Reddit

Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll be quick to say I love a good book. Bookstores and libraries are my heaven and with summer shortly underway, with the help of the good chefs on Reddit, I’ve rounded up the best Chef autobiographies. Hopefully you get out from the hot kitchen and enjoy some time off reading some of the inspiring chef biographies listed below!

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pepin’s

This inspiring autobiography tells the story of Jacques Pepin’s rise from as a humble apprentice in an old world French kitchen to an Emmy Award–winning superstar complete with 21 cookbooks, 13 PBS cooking shows and dean of special programs at the French Culinary Institute in New York City under his belt. Recipes are included along the way as well as anecdotal stories that will equally make you laugh and cry.

A Taste of My Life by Raymond Blanc

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CULINARY BIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, etc.

A Culinary Journey in Gascony    by Kate Hill

(The) Accomplisht Cook (1665-1685)   by Robert May

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse   by Thomas McNamee

(The) Amish Cook at Home:
Simple Pleasures of Food, Family, and Faith
by Kevin Williams and Lovina Eicher

(The) Amish Cook's Anniversary Book:
20 Years of Food, Family, and Faith
by Lovina Eicher with Kevin Williams

Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child
by Noel Riley Fitch

(The) Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen
by Jacques Pepin

Becoming a Chef: With Recipes and Reflections from America’s Leading Chefs
by Andrew Dornenburg & Karen Page

Between Bites: Memoirs of a Hungry Hedonist
by James Villas

Celebrate: Italian Style  by Jacqueline Miconi

Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
by Ruth Reichi

Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes
by Amanda Hesser

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