Notes from a Kitchen
From Esquire:
A book has landed with a considerable thud on my desk — a two-volume, 18.2-pound, 932-page production, entitled Notes from a Kitchen: A Journey Inside Culinary Obsession, by photographer Jeff Scott and chef Blake Beshore. It is a collection of photos, with very little text, showing the work of cooks on the line and focusing on 10 well-known American chefs — mostly Sean Brock, along with George Mendes, Johnny Iuzzini, Emma Hearst, Zak Pelaccio, Michael Laiskonis, Jason Neroni, Matt Gaudet, Joel Harrington, and Neal Fraser.
There are shots of order tickets, menu notes, 23 photos of one chef working out with a punching bag, and nine pages of the inside of a flour mill. But mostly there are hundreds of photos of cooks’ hands putting the final touches on dishes — a periwinkle on tapioca, a dot of sauce on octopus, a blow torch used on cactus pads. There are no recipes.
How great is this book? It has it’s own trailer.
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