>>> BlackFriday The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
I've been waiting for this book my whole life! I sat down with the book last evening intending to read for a while maybe return later. Could not put it down. A well written funny sad informative and always enchanting account of an incredible career. Pepin's account of coming up through the his family's bistros then the old school European hotel/restaurant system--and later New York's legendary Le Pavillon-- is fascinating first person memoir--and terrific history. I can't say enough good things about this book. It's right up there with Orwell Freeling Bemelmans--but better richer more passionately drawn. An instant classic.
