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"A kitchen-maid's through-the-key hole memoir of life in the great houses of England--now a bestseller in the UK. At fifteen, she arrived at the servants' entrance to begin her life as a kitchen maid in 1920s England. The lowest of the low, her world was one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5:30am and went on until after dark. In this captivating memoir,...
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Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell
For the first time, Ramsay tells the full inside story of his life and how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his failed first career as a soccer player, his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection and his TV persona-all of the things that made him the celebrated culinary...
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Although he started his life wanting to be a professional soccer player, Ramsay's competitive streak gave him a head start in a career as a chef and as the host of several television shows. But the Scottish-born chef is much more than a tough-as-nails television personality. Readers will learn about Ramsay's culinary career, rise to celebrity status, and personal life. They will also discover how to become a chef and get the chance to try some recipes...
4) To the bone
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Combines stories from the author's childhood and day-to-day life at New York City's Corton restaurant with explanations about how great chefs build recipes from mismatched parts and how he gained inspiration from famous chefs around the world.
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In the sequel to Below Stairs, Powell tells the true story of Rose, the under-parlourmaid to the Wardham Family at Redlands, who took a shocking step: She eloped with the family's only son. Once again bringing a lost world to life, Powell trains her pen on her "betters" in this next warm, funny chapter from a life spent in service.
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In the UK, White's brilliant cooking and high-wattage antics have made him a legend: the first British chef (and the youngest chef anywhere) to win three Michelin stars, a chain-smoking, pot-throwing, multiply married culinary genius whose fierce devotion to food and restaurants has been the only constant in a life of tabloid-ready turmoil. Here, he tells the story of his life in food, spanning his apprenticeship with Albert and Michel Roux, his wild...
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From a young age, food was Sumayya's portal to nurturing, love and self-expression. She spent the first eight years of her life at sea, with a father who captained merchant ships and a mother who preferred to cook for the family herself on a tiny electric stove in their cabin rather than eat in the officer's mess. When the family moved to Karachi, Sumayya grew up torn between the social expectations of life as a young girl in Pakistan, and the inspiration...
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Chef April Bloomfield owns and operates three restaurants in New York City, the Breslin, John Dory, and Salvation Taco, and is in the process of opening her first spot in San Francisco called Tosca. Over the course of eight half-hour episodes, join executive producer Anthony Bourdain and watch April wrestle with the demands of opening a restaurant, testing menu ideas, obsessing over ingredients, and cooking with her mentors and contemporaries.
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