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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Other titles in the Modern Library Movies series:High Bonnet: A Novel of Epicurean Adventuresby Idwal Jones
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The chef's towering white toque, the high bonnet, is the mark of achievement to which every young sauce-stirrer aspires. Idwal Jones's urbane novel follows the young provincial Jean as he attempts to master culinary art at the hands of Paris's most distinguished chefs. Jean will win his high bonnet and the royal bearing that accompanies it - but not until he's had many outrageous adventures, in the kitchen and out. High Bonnet is a sly send-up of the seething politics, subtle artistry, and enslavement to the palate that constitute life behind the kitchen's swinging doors. First published in 1945 and out of print for more than four decades, High Bonnet will delight readers of Anthony Bourdain's bestselling Kitchen Confidential or of Ludwig Bemelmans's Hotel Splendide. Synopsis:A first for the Modern Library Food series: a novel of the seething politics, subtle artistry, and enslavement to the palate that constitute life in a great restaurant kitchen. "High Bonnet" refers to the chef's towering white toque, the mark of achievement every young sauce-stirrer aspires to. The young provincial Jean is thrown into a three-star kitchen for the most brutal of trainings after a famous voluptuary swoons over the bitter chocolate-scented sauce he'd ladled on her roast goose. Jean will win his high bonnet, and the royal bearing that accompanies it, but not until he's had many outrageous adventures in the kitchen and out of it. I can't recall another novel that organizes itself so completely around the art of cooking that succeeds as well as a story. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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