The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America Paperback - 2009
by Michael Ruhlman
In 1996 Michael Ruhlman entered the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, to learn the art of cooking. After nine grueling weeks of classroom instruction, he was then granted entrance to the school's numerous kitchens to learn the secrets of mastering the techniques of world-famous chefs. Exploring the essence of becoming a chef, this book reveals the elusive, unnameable elements of great cooking.
From the rear cover
In the ultimate food-lover's fantasy, journalist Michael Ruhlman dons chef's jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students in Skills One at the Culinary Institute of America, the most influential cooking school in the country. His goal is to document the training of America's chefs from the first classroom to the Culinary's final kitchen, the American Bounty Restaurant. The result becomes more than a rote reportage of a school for cooks. Ruhlman learns to cook as though his future depends upon it, and this complete immersion enables him to create the most vivid and energetic memoir of a genuine culinary education on record. He learns fundamental skills and information about the behavior of food that make cooking anything possible. But he also finds that a professional cook needs more than just knowledge and skill. Ultimately Ruhlman propels himself and his readers through a score of kitchens and classrooms, from Asian and American regional cuisines to lunch cookery and even table waiting, in search of the elusive, unnameable elements of great cooking.
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- Title The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
- Author Michael Ruhlman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Edition,
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-03
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780805089394 / 080508939X
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.14 x 5.38 x 0.85 in (20.68 x 13.67 x 2.16 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008039616
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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