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Alison's Reviews > Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
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Fifty pages in and I'm not sure I'll read much more. It's interesting and entertaining, but it's also infuriating to read about a hyper-privileged family that has no shame in milking its connections to get Buford opportunities that other, harder-working and more qualified people would salivate over. When people talk about mediocre white men failing up, this is what they mean. If I so brazenly worked my network to get access/opportunities for which I was unqualified, I would be embarrassed. I certainly wouldn't write a book about it.
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Sep 11, 2020 06:18AM
Totally agree. I love his writing style, and the behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant industry, but how can you root for someone who doesn’t speak the language and depends on his wife to do everything? I haven’t seen a single professional review that comments on his privilege.
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Glad I'm not alone! You said it well � there's a lot to like, but it's hard to root for him. (Can you imagine being his wife???)
I felt much the same way about Chef Marcus Samuelsson and his book, Yes Chef. He is admittedly a deadbeat dad, and he completely kicked his loving (adopted) parents to the curb and couldn’t even be bothered to fly home for his dad’s funeral because he didn’t want to leave his new internship. But then he moved heaven and earth to go to Africa and help support his deadbeat, misogynistic, chauvinist pig, birth father and loser blood relatives who never gave a shit about him, never tried to find or contact him, definitely never bothered with one dime towards the care of he and his sister. But he kissed their ass and spent gobs of money to support them and their village. I hated him by the end of that book - still do.
Good to know. I often dip into culinary memoirs because most chefs have interesting back stories, but I think I'll pass on this one.
