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Aşçı (2012)

by Wayne Macauley(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

İthaki Yayınları

review 1: The first thing that hit me about this book was the punctuation – there isn’t any – a pet hate of mine. I have been known to not read the book and strike an author off my ‘to read’ list if they dare do it. God gave us full stops, commas, quotation marks and the rest for a reason – to use – for clarification and understanding. BUT – there was something about the story that kept me reading despite my scratching my head and reading a paragraph more than once to try and figure out the flow. THE COOK is not really about ‘food’ a la Master Chef, it is not really about ‘bad boy made good’ a la Jamie Oliver; what it IS is a look at food as an indicator of money and class and the snobbery and pretentiousness that accompanies it . The sort of person who s... moreits down on a park bench to eat ‘fish and chips’ is far inferior to a person who sits down in a fancy restaurant and dines on ‘poisson frit avec des frites’. Same dish but with foreign name it sounds posh! Be warned, the story is very dark in spots especially the harrowing, stomach turning, blood drenched lamb slaughter scene. The scene however, was necessary to the plot as budding cooks needed to be aware of where their food comes from. Yet despite all this, there was just a nugget of compulsion to keep on reading just to see where the author was going with the story and the unexpected twist at the end is the reward for making it all the way there.
review 2: Great satire! Bitterly humorous, skewering (if you'll forgive me) the sanctimonious cult of foodieness, which tries to add a self-righteous sheen to killing and chopping up animals for food and flogging that food at outrageous prices. Recommended reading for anyone who lives somewhere (like Melbourne) where foodie culture has gone nuts. It even made me feel uncomfortable about myself; surely a good thing. less

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