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Lisa'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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I finally had to give up on this book. I couldn’t waste any more time. I’m not sure who this book was written for: perhaps other chefs. His prose is confusing, and this “story� consists mainly of name-dropping, French phrases, animal torture, the history of French cooking, and how mean people are to each other in the kitchen. So sorry I wasted $14.99 on this.
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May 29, 2020
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May 29, 2020
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June 9, 2020
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34.49%
"Very disappointed in this so far. Seems to be written for experienced chefs, with lots of jargon, French words and name-dropping. Not much to the story other than the chef's personalities, some French history and his struggle to move to France and cooking mishaps. He slags off MFK Fisher's writing early in the book, but his writing style is almost incomprehensible at times."
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June 21, 2020
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Aug 21, 2020 10:40PM
Exactly like my experience with this book.
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I agree wholeheartedly
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.
