In a kitchen, no one will hear you burn

di Alex Fenot (Autore)

Alex Fenot, 2025

Take a splash of Italian, a dash of Polish, and a hint of Normandy, and you have me. A mutt seasoned with salted butter. Stubborn, proud, hard-headed, and vindictive. Perfumed by the smell of French baguette and bad intentions, my life adds up to bad decisions, countless mistakes, and an inconsistency that borders on genius. And some recklessness. Because I'm a moron. I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Model at 20 years old, restaurant GM at 30, executive chef at 40… In between: drugs, alcohol, car crashes, spectacular resignations, and relapses. I didn't just hit rock bottom. I took a fucking lease there. That's my story—the journey of a magnificent idiot. In fact, I wasn't looking for a job; I was looking for a shelter. A family… And I found it in a restaurant. This book is thirty years of my life in restaurants on both sides of the Atlantic—Paris, London, Saint-Barth, Miami—told without anesthesia, and music running through it all. Because food is music you chew. So here, you'll run into burned-out servers, angry chefs, heroic sous-chefs, friends, and random ghosts passing through. Hellish services, glamorized burnouts, endless days, and annoying customers. But also moments of absolute grace, a gang of maniacs bonded with napalm, gods in white, a kamikaze in high heels, and even a goddamn dog that knows more about love than most people. You'll travel through Miami and its multi-million-dollar restaurants that close after six months, its influencers who photograph but don't eat, its people allergic to happiness, and its weekend vegans who spend weekday mornings in the next drive-through eating breakfast sandwiches with square eggs drowned in ketchup, with a fourteen-syllable coffee. You'll understand why brunch is a virus, Valentine's Day a thermonuclear war, and Mother's Day an annual trauma.

• Autore: Alex Fenot
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Alex Fenot
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798993109527