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Salt, sweat & steam : the fiery education of an accidental chef / Brigid Washington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Washington, Brigid, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women cooks--United States.
- Women cooks.
- Cooks--United States.
- Cooks.
- Women food writers--United States.
- Women food writers.
- Food writers--United States.
- Food writers.
- Trinidadian Americans.
- Washington, Brigid.
- Culinary Institute of America.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Salt, sweat and steam
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Salt, Sweat & Steam takes readers inside America's top culinary school and shows what's really required to become a chef: from brutal unpaid internships and gruelling practical exams to late-night vending machine dorm-room dinners while trudging through the rarefied world of fine wine. As editor of the school's newspaper, "La Papillote", Washington, a Trinidadian, meets and interviews food-world luminaries such as Jerome Bocuse, Daniel Boulud and Thomas Keller and savors the joys of a life devoted to food. She puts us all in her kitchen clogs as she finally achieves the perfect mise-en-place both in and out of the dignified kitchen of The Culinary Institute of America. Unwilling to accept a future that was anything but delicious, readers follow along Washington's high-octane journey through the rigors and rewards of the country's most elite cooking school"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Author's note
- Soup du jour
- The breakup and the landing
- Angell, Roth, and me
- Show me your friends
- La Papillote
- Of produce, proteins, and an improbable fling
- Skills one: Pots, pans, and laceration
- Le not in black tie
- Love is a dog from Hell
- Cooking across the Americas
- Continental divide
- Internship
- Of fourth term, friendships, and phone calls
- Mussels, stallions, and me
- The final course
- Acknowledgments.
- ISBN:
- 9781250333377
- 1250333377
- OCLC:
- 1513893914
- Publisher Number:
- 90104531461
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