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Kitchen Confidential
Anthony BourdainA chef's account of his years in New York kitchens, covering the work, the culture, and the drinking and drug use. It shaped how restaurant life was written about afterward.
Heat
Bill BufordA non-chef's reportage on working in Mario Batali's kitchen and following Italian cooking, written with a journalist's distance and a cook's attention to technique.
Fresh off the Boat
Eddie HuangA memoir of growing up as a Taiwanese American in Orlando and Washington, DC, that includes his family's restaurant and his path into cooking.
The French Laundry Cookbook
Thomas KellerA cookbook that documents the dishes and techniques of Keller's Napa Valley restaurant, and shows how a single restaurant's approach can be recorded on the page.
Ottolenghi
Yotam OttolenghiA cookbook from the London restaurant group, built around vegetables and Middle Eastern-inflected flavors, and typical of chef-led cookbooks that became a major sales category.
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