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Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories Of Trials By Fire, After-Hours Exploits, And What Really Goes On In The Kitchen (2009)

by Dalia Jurgensen(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0399155619 (ISBN13: 9780399155611)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Putnam Adult

review 1: I really enjoyed this book. I am a huge Anthony Bourdain fan and have absolutely loved his books, so I was skeptical that this would not compare. My mom, a pastry chef, kept urging me to read it. I was not disappointed! I've been around kitchens my whole life (both my parents are chefs), so I was able to chuckle along with the stories. I loved seeing the view from a woman's standpoint, especially a female pastry chef, which is one of the more shit-on positions of a kitchen. My mom was a one-woman show at the restaurant she worked at (she now works for herself), and this have me even more respect for her.
review 2: I found this bizarrely negative about a career and industry she clearly enjoys. I could see that she loves pastry but her depiction of the restauran... moret industry (and the people in it) is far from flattering. Liked it enough to read to the end (which included a 1 page essay on why woman can't get pregnant and keep working the restaurant industry and how unfair it is - probably true but kind of out of place) but it left me kind of ambivalent... less

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