Book Club: The Reach of a Chef
The Reach of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman follows The Making of a Chef and The Soul of a Chef, neither of which I have read. Thankfully, they were not prerequisites for understanding or enjoying The Reach of a Chef.
Thinking about food, cooking and restaurants through the eyes and minds of chefs was interesting and almost made me want to be a chef myself. Even more, it made me want to eat at the restaurants at the best and most innovative chefs in the world. Specifically, I am determined to make it to Grant Achatz’s Alinea in Chicago.
So determined that I wrote a [fictional] poem for a contest on Eater to win tickets to an book/tasting event hosted by Achatz in New York on November 6. I don’t know yet if I won. And as far as I can tell, Eater is taking its (his? her?) sweet time in choosing a winner, and even in determining a deadline by which to choose a winner.
But I do have it written on my calendar. I do, after all, enjoy contests.
