Download Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession AudioBook Free
Chefs, Drugs and Rock and roll & Move transports listeners back in time to see the remarkable evolution of the American restaurant chef in the 1970s and 1980s. Andrew Friedman should go inside Chez Panisse and other Bay Area restaurants to show the way the politically charged backdrop of Berkeley helped spark this new career; in to the historically underrated community of Los Angeles chefs, including a Wolfgang Puck; and in to the clash of cultures between set up French chefs in New York City and the American game changers behind the Quilted Giraffe, River Café, and other storied establishments. On the way, the chefs, their battles, their cliques, and, of course, their restaurants are taken to life in stunning, memorable depth. As the '80s unspool, we watch the career develop as American masters like Thomas Keller go up, watching the genesis of an "chef nation" as chefs start crisscrossing the country for work and special situations and renowned hangouts like Blue Ribbon become social things, all as the industry-altering Food Network shimmers coming. A (mainly) oral history told mainly in the words of folks who lived it - from authors like Ruth Reichl to chefs like Jeremiah Tower and Jonathan Waxman - Chefs, Drugs and Rock and roll & Move snacks listeners to an unparalleled 360-level re-creation of the industry and the changing times through the perspectives not only of the pioneering chefs but also of brand cooks, front-of-house employees, shareholders, and critics who acquired front-row seats to the extraordinary transformation.
