Kitchen Con: Writing on the Restaurant Racket - Softcover

White, T

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845962206 ISBN 13: 9781845962203

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Trevor White's hilarious account of life as a restaurant critic is also a social history of restaurant criticism and an expose of the restaurant business. The author reveals how diners are routinely ripped off by self-styled artists and greedy restaurateurs, while arguing that anyone can become a food critic - all you need is a pen and an appetite. This defiantly populist critique of restaurant culture redefines the dining room as a place in which humans can be greatly satisfied, rather than an artist's studio. From the world's first restaurant to the most fashionable kitchens of London, Paris and New York, "Kitchen Con" is a book-length tribute to dinner but also a scathing attack on gourmet dogma. Written with style, humour and breathtaking candour, "Kitchen Con" lifts the lid on the culinary cartel in a whirlwind tour of the world's great restaurants, before turning its attention to the greatest con of all: the author himself. No one is spared in this riveting tale of life at the heart of the restaurant racket.

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Review

"White has a knockabout charm and gift of the gab . . . His breathless style is delightfully punchy, witty, fluent and opinionated" (Mail on Sunday)

"A cracking read" (Sunday Independent)

"Lists the ways restaurants abuse us, their clientele" (The Observer)

"Trevor White writes with witty intelligence and a sharply elegant pen. Once this book has dropped into the frying pan, nothing will ever be the same in the restaurant world" (A.C. Grayling, philosopher and Booker Prize judge)

"An illuminating and witty polemic on culinary egomaniacs and our obsession with eating out" (The Times Magazine)

About the Author

Trevor White is Ireland's leading food critic. He now publishes The Dubliner, a city magazine, and edited The Dubliner 100 Best Restaurants, Ireland's bestselling restaurant guide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845962206
• ISBN 13: 9781845962203
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272