Author: Julie Hyzy
Publisher: Berkley
Keywords: chef, mystery, house, hail
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-12-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0425224996
ISBN-13: 9780425224991
White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Lady’s nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrimp with Ollie. Ollie suspects something fishy is going on. She’ll have to watch her back—and find a killer unlikely to be pardoned.
Author: E. M. Harris
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: chef, public, lament, private
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2005-06-16
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 1412057434
ISBN-13: 9781412057431
A man, a chef by trade, tires of working in hotels and restaurants and at the urging of his wife interviews for a private chef position. He gets the postion and the next year of his life begins. He is slowly pulled into a world where he sees great wealth on a daily basis but is not treated as an equal by those he works for. He has many run-ins with the other employees in the mansion, never really connecting with any of them. Favorite recipes of the lady of the house are included along with menus from some of the most outlandish parties given by the couple. The chef is used and abused
Author: The Creators of Top Chef
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: cookbook, chef, top
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-03-20
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0811864308
ISBN-13: 9780811864305
Top Chef presents the official companion cookbook to the No. 1 rated food show on cable television! Featuring 100 fabulous recipes from the first three seasons of the show, including dishes from the Elimination Rounds and the Quick-Fire Challenges, Top Chef: The Cookbook invites fans into the hottest kitchen on prime time. In-depth discussions with contestants, judges, and crew reveal the inner workings of the show, and lavish photographs take readers behind-the-scenes into the Top Chef pantry and the competition sites. Handsomely packaged with a canvas cover inspired by the chef’s jacke
Author: The Creators of Top Chef
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: chef, top, cook
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-07-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0811874869
ISBN-13: 9780811874861
The number one food show on cable TV presents the ultimate guide to becoming a Top Chef. This cookbook and culinary primer in one features recipes from all six seasons of the show and season one of Top Chef: Masters, along with insider techniques from everyone’s favorite contestants and judges. Covering everything from knife skills to sauces and sous-vide, How to Cook Like a Top Chef teaches aspiring chefs what it takes to be a star in the kitchen. Packed with exclusive content including a foreword by Top Chef: Masters winner Rick Bayless, original recipes from contestants, behind-the-sc
Authors:Candy Wallace, Greg Forte,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: business, chef, personal, book, doing, professional
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0471752193
ISBN-13: 9780471752196
The definitive guide to a successful career as a professional personal chefThe job of professional personal chef is one of the fastest growing careers in foodservice. People are choosing to become personal chefs in order to have a culinary career on their own terms, with a self-determined schedule and freedom from restaurant strictures. Not only do personal chefs have the chance to work with food in a more creative, personalized way, they are also able to approach their careers with a more entrepreneurial business sense.Written by Candy Wallace, the founder and Executive Director of the Americ
Author: Heather Miller
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Keywords: chef
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2003-04
List price: $6.49
ISBN-10: 140343607X
ISBN-13: 9781403436078
A simple introduction to the equipment, clothing, daily activities, and other aspects of the job of a chef.
Author: Nicole Mone
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: chef, chinese, last
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-05-04
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0618619666
ISBN-13: 9780618619665
Nicole Mones has mined the endless riches of China once again in The Last Chinese Chef. This time she hits the trifecta: the personal stories of Sam and Maggie, the history and lore of Chinese cuisine, and an inside look at cultural dislocation. Maggie McElroy is a widowed American food writer who is suddenly confronted with a paternity claim against her late husband’s estate--by a Chinese family. Her editor offers her another reason to go to Beijing: write an article about a rising young Chinese-American-Jewish chef, Sam Liang. Having sold the home she had with her late husband Matt and
