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At the chef's table : culinary creativity in elite restaurants / Vanina Leschziner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leschziner, Vanina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Celebrity chefs--United States.
- Celebrity chefs.
- Creative ability in cooking--United States.
- Creative ability in cooking.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- This book is about the creative work of chefs at top restaurants in New York and San Francisco. Based on interviews with chefs and observation in restaurant kitchens, the book explores the question of how and why chefs make choices about the dishes they put on their menus. It answers this question by examining a range of areas, including chefs' careers, restaurant ratings and reviews, social networks, how chefs think about food and go about creating new dishes, and how status influences their work and careers. Chefs at top restaurants must navigate competing market pressures to deliver complex and creative dishes while running a profitable business in an industry with exceptionally high costs and low profit mar wins. Creating a distinctive and original culinary style allows them to stand out in the market, but making the familiar food that many customers want ensures that they will stay in business. Chefs must make choices between these competing pressures. In explaining how they do so, this book uses the ease study of high cuisine to analyze, more generally, how people in creative occupations navigate a context that is rife with uncertainty, high pressures, and contradictory forces. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Exploring the world of elite chefs
- Career paths in high cuisine
- Categories and classification in cuisine
- Managing a culinary style
- Cognitive patterns and work processes in cooking
- Culinary styles and principles of creation
- Mapping out creative patterns.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0804787972
- 9780804787970
- OCLC:
- 894746170
- Publisher Number:
- 99963432679
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