Product Description
A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen (Hardcover)
Author: Sally Abe
Format: Hardcover
This is the story of Sally Abé’s rise to become an award-winning chef in the brutal world of restaurant kitchens; how a girl from the midlands who used to cook herself Smash to get by is now one of the most successful fine-dining chefs working today.
It’s a familiar trope: angry men berating each other in kitchens as pots furiously boil, sauces burn and a giant slab of beef rests in the background. The dominant view of a professional kitchen is one of chaos and pent-up fury – a gladiatorial contest of male ego. Why then do we also hear the misogynistic refrain that women ‘belong in the kitchen’ if, in a professional context, they’re all but erased from them?
A Woman’s Place is in the Kitchen is a stirring manifesto – drawing back the curtain on restaurant kitchens to show how she is endeavouring to change them for the better. Filled with stories of Michelin-starred food, the relentlessness of kitchens, as well as the hope for the future of the culinary landscape, Sally’s memoir is set to become a classic.
‘Sally really tells it how it is . . . This book will be a go to for those needing that bit of bravery and resilience in a world that needs more people like her’ — CANDICE BROWN
‘Wow. Sally’s book is an insightful, honest account of a young cook’s journey to an inspirational chef’ — ANGELA HARTNETT
‘She doesn’t so much pull back the curtains as yank them away, revealing the plain truth of what it takes to get dinner on to your plate’ — OBSERVER
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