Reading this book on my daily commute certainly stirred up an appetite by the time I reached my destination!
The colourful speech and frank tone of Kitchen Confidential is also present in this book, and still very entertaining. However, I found the book more like a collection of short stories than one continuous piece, as it jumped from country to country, and sometimes back to a previous country.
There’s some discussion of the culture that surrounds the food, but it certainly doesn’t have the detail that he provided about professional cooking.
My favourite aspect to this book is the flair and passion for describing food, done so well with imaginative descriptions that I feel like I can almost taste it. If restaurant menus were all written with such expertise, I’d by hypnotized into always eating out!
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