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Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen
In this in-depth, behind-the-scenes tell-all about the lives of women chefs, journalist Charlotte Druckman walks the reader into the world behind the hot line. But this is a different perspective on the kitchen: one told through the voices of more than 70 of the best and brightest women cooking today, These are female chefs performing culinary and domestic high wire acts:...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
October 24th 2012
by Chronicle Books
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I so much wanted to like this book and I looked forward to reading it after seeing a note about it in a food mag. After 80 pages, I gave up. For some reason, she had extensive footnotes (on some pages there was more footnote than regular text) that further explained her thoughts or provided additional background on almost every page. But the material in the footnotes was interesting and should have been in the text. It was so distracting and difficult to read. In the end the book didn't move alo...more
I was so excited to read this book when I saw it on my library shelf, but it (mostly) disappointed me. I feel like Druckman spent way too much time going off on little side thought tangents (very evident in the extremely distracting, goofy footnotes) and didn't take advantage of the valuable insight she got from her many interviews with female chefs. The book came across as too feminist to me, just too much intentional use of "witty" dialogue and snappy, short sentences that seemed way too force...more
I was SO excited to read this book and SO disappointed with it. I quit reading it after only 2 chapters because I really could not stand the way the author wrote. She divided the book into categories like "What is a Chef" and "Education" and wrote about each subject with a lot of quotes from various female chefs, but the most irritating thing was almost every pages had footnotes - some pages had like 4 or 5 footnotes! Sometimes they were actually helpful, but most of the time it was something la...more
Nov 13, 2012
The Mighty Fawking Quinn Quinn
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as a female who has worked in kitchen for the past 7 years I really was hoping that this book was something more powerful and really dove into subjects that were apart of what it really is to be a woman in the kitchen instead it ended up seeming more of stereotypes and feeding into what is already a male dominated realm. Utterly horrific and very much a let down, I would never encourage anyone to pick it up unless it was free.
I received an advance reader's copy of this book and was captivated by the stories of successful women chefs and restauranteurs and their trials and tribulations. Her access to some of the country's top culinary talent is outstanding. However, the author's compulsive footnotes to explain things that could be easily explained withing the text became wearying and quite frankly, twee. I'm hoping that in the final edit of this book, those are significantly reduced. Druckman's audience is primarily w...more
This is an interesting and enlightening read for any foodie, particularly if you're female. Lots of insight on the culinary world from a woman's perspective, as Druckman interviewed over 70 females during her research.
Couldn't even really get started after flipping through it. Overwhelming amount of info. Not so interested after all. Thank goodness it was a library book.
The footnotes are awesome. It reminded me of David Foster Wallace's essays on star tennis players, but here the stars are chefs.
I picked up the book (actually, I ILLed it), read a few pages, and was "eh". Didn't grab me the way I had hoped it would. So technically I didn't read it, but I didn't have any desire to.
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Exhausting in its flippancy. She may have gotten to a valid point eventually, but I wasn't willing to wade through the casual asides to find out.
Must read for boring chefs or women thinking about being a chef. Boring for everyone else. Author's writing style is annoying with unnecessary details about herself (Her computer's name, song titles of her favorite in junior high, etc).
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