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Andrew Parkinson was head chef at Soho Soho in London and is now executive head chef at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant, London. Jonathon Green's many books include Days in the Life, All Dressed Up and The Cassell Dictionary of Slang.
Tells you everything you want to know about what goes on in the kitchen... Parkinson is a professional to his scarred fingertips, and impressively honest Independent Packed with good information, with plenty of enlightening detail about what it's really like to work in a London kitchen. Anyone who works at the coalface of the capital's restaurant scene should buy this book. It will tell you more than Kitchen Confidential ever could about the realities of kitchen work Time Out This detailed account painstakingly punctures the idea of cheffing as a glamorous profession. The hard, repetitive work is conveyed in all its tedium - and adrenalin-fuelled excitement Guardian An English equivalent of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential Independent A warts-and-all account of the real world beyond the kitchen door Independent on Sunday
