EPISODE · Apr 12, 2022 · 30 MIN
What’s Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients by Peter Hoffman
from Listen to Trending Full trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Tara Flatley
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients Author: Peter Hoffman Narrator: Peter Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins What goes into the making of a chef, a restaurant, a dish? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional education, and evolution as a chef and restaurant owner through its components—everything from the importance of your relationship with your refrigerator repairman and an account of how a burger killed his restaurant, to his belief in peppers as a perfect food. Along with these personal stories from a life in restaurants, Hoffman braids in passionately curious explorations into the cultural, historical, and botanical backstories of the foods we eat. Beginning with a spring maple sap run and ending with the late-season, frost-defying vegetables, he follows the progress of the seasons and their reflections in his greenmarket favorites, moving ingredient to ingredient through the bounty of the natural world. Hoffman meets with farmers and vendors and unravels the magic of what we eat, deepening every cook's appreciation for what's on their kitchen counter. What's Good? is a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients Author: Peter Hoffman Narrator: Peter Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins What goes into the making of a chef, a restaurant, a dish? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional education, and evolution as a chef and restaurant owner through its components—everything from the importance of your relationship with your refrigerator repairman and an account of how a burger killed his restaurant, to his belief in peppers as a perfect food. Along with these personal stories from a life in restaurants, Hoffman braids in passionately curious explorations into the cultural, historical, and botanical backstories of the foods we eat. Beginning with a spring maple sap run and ending with the late-season, frost-defying vegetables, he follows the progress of the seasons and their reflections in his greenmarket favorites, moving ingredient to ingredient through the bounty of the natural world. Hoffman meets with farmers and vendors and unravels the magic of what we eat, deepening every cook's appreciation for what's on their kitchen counter. What's Good? is a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal.
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