30 Second Review: The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen by Michael Ruhlman
If you’re a fan of Anthony Bourdain, you will probably like Michael Ruhlman too. This book is a follow up to The Soul of a Chef/Making of a Chef, and in it Ruhlman revisits the people and places of his past. The other books aren’t prerequisites though.
I would say this book and Bourdain’s latest, Medium Raw, make good companions with similar topics and stories: chef branding and ever expanding empires, and the rise of celebrity chefs.
The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen is probably the closest many of us will get to being able to sit down with some of the CIAs chefs, Grant Achatz, and Thomas Keller and for that reason alone I think it’s worth a read.
