32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DYFH4PG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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That passion would carry him through the drudgery of culinary school and into the high-pressure world of Paris' most elite restaurants, where Ripert discovered that learning to cook was the easy part - surviving the line was the battle. Told that boys had no place in the kitchen, Ripert would instead watch from the doorway as his mother rolled couscous by hand or his grandmother pressed out the buttery dough for the treat he loved above all others, tarte aux pommes. Ripert's parents divorced when he was six, separating him from the father he idolized and replacing him with a cold, bullying stepfather who insisted that R
Great book with 2 sections The first half of this book is a young man struggling through a difficult childhood. Ripert's intelligence, honesty, and clarity make this section entertaining and relatable. Although his situation was much different from mine growing up, his description of the emotional impact often left me thinking, "I know exactly how that felt."The second section was even more fascinating. It tells the story of the a young man beginning a craft . "I'l have the souffle with my poisson d'Avril. bon appetit" according to kkkkatie. A kitchen and some ingredients are transformed into a sumptuous read, inviting us to observe the making of a chef. We are offered not only training from kitchen help to sous chef to becoming master but allowed to witness slices of a child, a soul yearning for connection and finally the man who finds the giving and sharing of love in a dish. The spiritual quest continues as we only finish the hors d'oeuvres and consume the last page.. M. J. Smith said Very satisfactory if your interest is in Ripert's relationship to food and cooking. This is a book that demands acceptance for what it is rather than docilely fitting into the "chef's biography" genre. How? by following two intertwined threads. The first thread is religious - tracing the influences which took him from an angry young man to a future Buddhist. The second thread is gourmand - tracing the influences that took him from the consummate consumer to a devotee of ingredients themselves. Each of the individua