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Cooking Dirty Cooking Dirty, ISBN 9781848871892 and books by Jason Sheehan on sale at thebookshelf.co.nz From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at the age of fifteen, Jason Sheehan has worked at all kinds of restaurants across America, from Buffalo to Tampa to Albuquerque: at a French colonial and an all–night diner, at a crab shack just off the interstate and a fusion restaurant in a former hair salon. In Cooking Dirty he tells the story of one mans addiction to the urgency, stress, and adrenalin of minimum–wage kitchen work. His universe becomes a small, steel box filled with knives and meat and fire, where the kitchen is a fraternity with its own rites and initiations: cigarettes in the walk–in freezer, sex in the basement, drugs everywhere. Restaurant cooking sets a series of seemingly endless personal challenges from the first perfectly done mussel to the satisfaction of surgically sliced foie gras. The kitchen itself is a place in which lifes mysteries are thawed, sliced, broiled, barbecued, and fried – a place where people from the margins find their community and their calling. Cooking Dirty is a passionate, funny, electrifying memoir of addiction: an addiction to kitchen work. It reveals the hell and glory of restaurant life, as told by a survivor. Jason Sheehan is his own unforgettable central character – edgy, driven, irresistible. Eating out will never be the same again. About the AuthorJason Sheehan won a James Beard Award – Americas top food awards – in 2003. His work has appeared in Best American Food Writing every year for the past five years. This is his first book.
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