Craveable Obsessed: Journals of a Food Addicted Chef

Craveable Obsessed: Journals of a Food Addicted Chef

An unfiltered, award-winning memoir of food, obsession, and the fire that saved a life.

This is not your typical chef story.

This is a raw, confessional dive into the mind of Chef Jeffrey Schlissel—a man who built his career around food while silently drowning in addiction to it.

From the intensity of professional kitchens to the private spiral of binge cycles and self-sabotage, Craveable Obsessed unpacks the battle between flavor and fear, hunger and healing. It’s brutally honest. Sometimes funny. Always human.

Whether you’ve faced food addiction, burnout, or simply want to understand what it means to chase purpose through pain, this book will shake something loose in you.

🟢 Finalist, 2025 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (Mental Health Category)

🟢 Featured on FOX, Channel 8, and Channel 13

Inside you’ll find:

• A powerful mental health journey grounded in culinary chaos

• Gritty stories from the line, therapy couch, and recovery journal

• Reflections on parenting, purpose, and survival

• A call to those who feel alone at the table

📘 Craveable Obsessed is more than a memoir.

It’s a reminder that you’re not broken. You’re just not done yet.

Jeffrey Schlissel is a chef, writer, and mental health advocate whose journey spans over four decades in the culinary world. Battling food addiction, depression, ADHD, and trauma, Jeffrey found healing through cooking, reflection, and asking for help. In Craveable Obsessed, he shares his unfiltered story - full of scars and breakthroughs - to remind every human: it's okay not to be okay. With recipes woven into raw storytelling, Jeffrey offers readers both nourishment and hope - because healing is a messy, beautiful journey, and none of us should walk it alone.