Description: Further DetailsTitle: Uses for ObsessionCondition: NewSubtitle: A Chef's MemoirEAN: 9781922616845ISBN: 9781922616845Publisher: Murdoch BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/10/2024Description: 'Deeply thoughtful, unflinchingly honest and heartwarmingly original. Ben's unique creativity is clearly not limited to Attica.' Hamish Blake 'Powerful, vulnerable, intense, full of love and some darkness too.' Matty Matheson, chef, author, producer and actor Chef and restaurateur Ben Shewry knows obsession well. Whether it's crispy-edged lasagne, saltwater crocodile ribs or the perfect potato, obsession is what motivates him and what makes him tick. It's also what has propelled his Melbourne restaurant Attica into the league of the most innovative, acclaimed dining experiences in the world, and one of the most vital in Australian history.In this absorbing and wide-ranging memoir meets manifesto, Shewry applies his sometimes searing, sometimes comic eye to creative freedom in the kitchen, food journalism, sexism in hospitality, the fraud of the farm-to-table sustainability ethos, the cult of the chef, cooking as muse and the legendary Family Bolognese.Raised on a farm in a close-knit rural New Zealand family, he shares how a childhood surrounded by nature and a reverence for First People's cultures has influenced his work, the values he lives by, and the meticulous, inventive multi-course menu that is synonymous with Attica. Uses for Obsession also tells the intimate, desperate story of how Attica survived 262 days with an empty dining room. How, during a time of epic hospitality transformation, it morphed into a takeaway food business, a merch shop and a summer camp. He was told it couldn't be done and that doubt both tortured and drove him.At its heart, this is a positive story, an antidote to the macho chef culture that thrives on old ideas about leadership and success. Shewry prosecutes the compelling case for a new way forward. A bold blueprint for the restaurant - and workplace - of the future. One built on kindness, community, truth and a commitment to never giving up.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 153mmAuthor: Ben ShewryGenre: BiographyTopic: Food & Drink, Music Dance & TheatreItem Weight: 342gRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Uses for Obsession
Title: Uses for Obsession
Subtitle: A Chef's Memoir
EAN: 9781922616845
ISBN: 9781922616845
Release Date: 10/10/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Book Title: Uses for Obsession : a Chef's Memoir
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Murdoch Books Pty The Limited
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Culinary, General, Essays & Narratives
Genre: Cooking, House & Home, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Author: Ben Shewry
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback