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Saucy Tales From Culinary School
Atria
April 2009
On Sale: April 14, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 1416565272
EAN: 9781416565277
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Cookbooks
A deliciously entertaining memoir
about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the
legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with
celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering
recipes To anyone who has ever dreamed of life
in a French kitchen, imagining days filled with puff pastry
and sips of vintage wine, Katherine Darling serves up a
savory dose of reality in this funny, fascinating, and
altogether delightful account of her time spent slaving over
a hot stove, wrestling with veal calves, and cleaning fish
heads at the French Culinary Institute in downtown New York
City. As she goes from clueless amateur to certified chef,
Katherine and her quirky fellow students learn the secrets
behind the art of French cooking and frequently find
themselves the objects of scorn and ridicule as their
teachers wage psychological warfare over steaming pots of
bisque. The kitchen, they soon discover, is no place for
soft-hearted romantics. It's a cutthroat world, and no one
ever made a soufflé without breaking a few eggs -- or
cracking a few heads together. From the basics to the final
exam, Darling reveals everything that goes into the making
of a chef. Filled with delicious food lore and trivia, and
including dozens of classic and original French recipes,
Under the Table takes readers deep into the trenches
of one of the world's most prestigious cooking schools --
and shows what really goes on behind the doors of every
great restaurant kitchen.
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