Power through service, says Head Chef. It's one of the first lessons taught at Cook School, where troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowin...
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Nov 07, 2011
Choupette
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My god that was disturbing, and not just the ending.
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Jan 01, 2012
Anna
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So Wayne Macauley, a satirist worth his salt, has been round for a while. Good ole’ Black Pepper Press took a punt on his skewered cheese-dreams of Australian aspiration. Not just suburban oiks, the obvious target, but those artistes applying for the wafer-thin dinner mints of grant funding and greater glory. Check out his early books.
But not before you read this one. My, this is a good book. If Jude the Obscure was obsessed by making it to Masterchef instead of Christminister you migh More...
But not before you read this one. My, this is a good book. If Jude the Obscure was obsessed by making it to Masterchef instead of Christminister you migh More...
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Oct 16, 2011
Fred
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Bought this one with my would-be chef son in mind, and fortunately read it first. It's very entertaining, though it's often a bit hard to empathise with the protagonist. It's written as a diary, and the deliberately dodgey (read "almost non-existent") grammar is interesting while still easy to understand. Very Australian (half in the bush outside Melbourne, half in the seriously wealthy suburbs of Melb) with a good sense of place. Parts of it are really funny, but sometimes the satire
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Oct 03, 2011
Jillwilson
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I reviewed this book for Readings as part of their 'Uncorrected Proofs' club. That bit was fun. My review is here:
http://www.readings.com.au/product/97819...
He is a very good writer. I would score this book 3 and 1/2 stars if I could. I didn't really love the book despite the cleverness but after reading, I did a bit of fossicking around in the web - as you do - and found a story of his that I liked - he is very versatile I think.
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http://www.readings.com.au/product/97819...
He is a very good writer. I would score this book 3 and 1/2 stars if I could. I didn't really love the book despite the cleverness but after reading, I did a bit of fossicking around in the web - as you do - and found a story of his that I liked - he is very versatile I think.
This is a link to his story about a More...
Oct 26, 2011
Piroska
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Seventeen year-old Zac has been chosen to attend the exclusive Cook School, a program for underprivileged youths run by a famous chef. Here he discovers a passion for cooking, and dreams of becoming a world-famous chef with his own restaurant. Eventually he lands a job as the personal chef for a very wealthy family, but things start to go a bit wrong...
This is very far from being a feel-good inspirational novel, but a darkly humourous and satirical look at the celebrity chef phenomen More...
This is very far from being a feel-good inspirational novel, but a darkly humourous and satirical look at the celebrity chef phenomen More...
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Jan 15, 2012
Rosemary
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What rollicking story written by a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who ends up in a cooking school for 'delinquent' older teens in the country near Melbourne. It is funny, thought-provoking (e.g. the class system, what is important in life) and has a couple of sys prising twists. It doesn't take long to read. Too bad our book group (a bit serious our book group) didn't select it for one of our monthly reads, but it was a suggestion. Enjoy!
Jan 09, 2012
Susanne
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I thought this was a bad made good type of story, I was wrong. I enjoyed the story with all the cooking terms, techniques etc. But it felt like the last couple of chapters were put in just for shock value rather than to make a good story. I loathed the lack of punctuation in the book, athough I realise the author was trying to write in a certain style - it just made the book difficult to read.
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