The Chef SaysQuotes, Quips and Words of Wisdom
Compelling quotations from 150 chefs-including James Beard, Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay, April Bloomfield-to inspire and delight professional chefs, foodies, and anyone who’s ever resolved a crisis by adding more butter.
Great chefs are not self-effacing or meek-there’s no room for indecision in the professional kitchen, where the slightest stumble can send an entire restaurant into the weeds. So it follows that even in quieter moments, what chefs have to say is usually opinionated and always illuminating.
The Chef Says invites readers to the ultimate food-lover’s dinner party, where cooks from ancient Greece rub shoulders and talk shop with today’s rising stars. These unruly culinarians compliment, compete, and disagree with one another as they discuss childhood and training, taste preferences and trends, the quest for perfection, and the grueling but exhilarating business of opening a restaurant. The Chef Says will captivate anyone who has ever worked in a kitchen, been inspired by a flawlessly ripe tomato, or resolved a crisis by adding more butter.
Nach Waxman is the owner of Kitchen Arts & Letters, a New York City bookstore specializing in food and drink for more than twenty-five years. Waxman has served for many years as a judge for the Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards and a committee member (and chair) of the James Beard Book Awards; he previously was a food judge at the Iowa State Fair. He has written for the New York Times and numerous major food magazines.
Matt Sartwell is the longtime manager of Kitchen Arts & Letters. A former editor for Penguin USA and recent chair of the James Beard Foundation’s Book Awards program, he writes for Edible Manhattan and other publications.
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