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Mincemeat
Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef | Leonardo Lucarelli
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With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketches the exhilarating life behind the closed doors of restaurants, and the unlikely work ethics of the kitchen. In Italy, five-star restaurants and celebrity chefs may seem, on the surface, a part of the landscape. In reality, the restaurant industry is as tough, cutthroat, and unforgiving as anywhere else in the world--sometimes even colluding with the shady world of organized crime. The powerful voice of Leonardo Lucarelli takes us through the underbelly of Italy's restaurant world. Lucarelli is a professional chef who for almost two decades has been roaming Italy opening restaurants, training underpaid, sometimes hopelessly incompetent sous-chefs, courting waitresses, working long hours, riding high on drugs, and cursing a culinary passion he inherited as a teenager from his hippie father. In his debut, Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef, Lucarelli teaches us that even among rogues and misfits, there is a moral code in the kitchen that must, above all else, always be upheld.
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Cyn.Microcosm #truth 8y
EmilyM As a teacher, I can completely relate to this. So many people ask me if I want to go into administration or something "else," and I just can't imagine being happier outside of the classroom. I get asked what my dream job is, and I consider myself lucky in that I am doing my dream job--high school English teacher for 19 years! (edited) 8y
ptkpepe98 So true... 8y
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Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef | Leonardo Lucarelli
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Coffee and warm corn muffin at our happy place on this MLK holiday! @TheBookmarkPR

MrBook #NiceStack! 8y
Gissy I only read in the morning, 😢in the afternoon I was in a cross training with the mop and broom! 😲 8y
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BethFishReads
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Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef | Leonardo Lucarelli
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I should finish this audio before our guests arrive. I'm starting to stack plates and serving dishes. Still interested in Lucarelli's slap-dash path to becoming a professional chef in Italy. Enjoyable #audiobook

Suzze Looks like a fancy party! Have fun. 8y
BethFishReads @Suzze fancy table, very casual everything else 8y
LeahBergen Beautiful pic. Enjoy your party and Happy New Year! 8y
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BethFishReads @LeahBergen thanks and some to you 8y
britt_brooke Great photo. 📷👏🏻 8y
BethFishReads @britt_brooke thanks 8y
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BethFishReads
BethFishReads
Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef | Leonardo Lucarelli
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Decided not to share what I cooked today (potato casserole) for tomorrow night's party. I started this foodie memoir in audio. Two first impressions: a very clean performance / production & narrator Will Damron creates an intimate atmosphere. I think I'll be speeding thru this tomorrow as I prep for our party.

DebinHawaii What!? No food photo for me to drool over! 🙁 Just kidding! Adding this one to my TBR list. 8y
BethFishReads @DebinHawaii Ha!! It's not yet baked so not very pretty (edited) 8y
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Rhondareads
Rhondareads
Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef | Leonardo Lucarelli

Mincemeat ,not a gourmet cook but I love reading about the life of a chef the day to day trials&tribulations.Mincemeat is about an Italian Chefs education .This weekend I will get away from the trauma we are now living with&read about the life behind the kitchen doors of this Italian Chef,

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BethFishReads
BethFishReads
Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef | Leonardo Lucarelli
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Can't wait to read this memoir of a real chef. The hard work and totally unglamorous life of working up through the restaurant ranks from dishwashing to cooking. Funny, revealing, honest. "You start working in a kitchen because you stumble into it."

DebinHawaii Sounds like a good one--looking forward to your review! 👍 8y
LeahBergen Ooo! He's an anthropologist, too? Stacking this one. Have you read
[tagged book]Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
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BethFishReads @DebinHawaii it'll be a while 😊 8y
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BethFishReads @LeahBergen I have. Wasn't it good? 8y
Gleefulreader This sounds really interesting! 8y
BethFishReads @Gleefulreader I thought so too 8y
RunningnReading Oooh, this sounds so good! 8y
BethFishReads @RunningnReading right?! 8y
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