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Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters
by Dominique Crenn

It's well-written (Emma Brockes probably helped a lot in structuring and refining) but it's still a memoir - the readers' interest in her life very much decided their opinions. I like her earlier dishes, I like her approach to cooking, I appreciate her struggle - so I naturally like this book.

Foodies who aren't too interested in chef's life might want to steer away from this memoir, especially if they've read Kitchen Confidential and liked it. When you are a woman in a male-dominated industry, world looks different through your lens. It's not longer lads lads lads and dick-swinging banter, it's an one-sided discrimination.

On that book though, I digress.

She mentioned Anthony Bourdain briefly,
"If you read Kitchen Confidential, it is apparent there was something within him he couldn’t get past."

I concur - It's apparent that Bourdain knew full well how vast the culinary world is and he's spent his life down a dead end. He was at best a very competent operator, but unlikely someone who could carry an establishment to a new height. Out of sheer luck he became a celebrity, yet he couldn't shake away his feeling of "betraying his comrades". Yet most people overlook this and mourn merely his telly persona.

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