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The Main Dish

By: Michael Ruhlman
Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
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Michael Ruhlman, author of best-selling books about professional cooking and chefs and best-selling cookbooks with such chefs as Thomas Keller, Eric Ripert, and Michael Symon, turns his reporter's eye and engaging style on himself to answer the question "how on earth did I get here?" In an unlikely and unplanned series of chance connections, and work often motivated primarily by fear of poverty, he managed to carve a unique place for himself in the increasingly obsessive world of restaurants, chefs, and writers. In this audiobook, Ruhlman charts his unlikely course from child cook-writer, to writer, to neophyte at The Culinary Institute of America, to his arrival in the kitchen of The French Laundry, one of the finest restaurants in America, and beyond.

Michael Ruhlman is the author of nine nonfiction books and two cookbooks and the coauthor of eight cookbooks. He has been a regular contributor to The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times and a frequent judge on Food Network's Iron Chef America and writes a popular blog at www.ruhlman.com.

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I certainly suggest reading/listening to The Making of a Chef and The Soul of a Chef before this one as it gives you the back ground events of those books. I am glad I decided to give it a listen as I typically prefer longer titles. I highly suggest including it when reading/listening to the series

A QUICK BUT ENJOYABLE LISTEN

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I loved The Making of a Chef and this book provides enjoyable extra info & details

Interesting details

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Figured I'd start with the short one, see how it went; went WAY better than expected. Now I want to listen to his other CIA books.

Awesome!

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I have enjoyed Ruhlman’s cook books and was curious to learn more about him. I downloaded the sample. I find the narrator unbearable to listen to. Such a shame, because the content is interesting.

The terrible narrator

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I’ve enjoyed everything Michael Ruhlman has written. This was a nice sneak peek behind the curtain of some of his famous works.

Wish it was longer!

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I bought this book because I enjoyed "The Making of a Chef" and "Soul of a Chef." Unfortunately, there isn't much new in this Kindle single. Michael Ruhlman is a talented writer in chronicling the food industry but not so much in other areas. This book reflects that... it jumps around focused on his struggles as a poor writer with a wife and toddler in tow. Also, since his wife choose to stay home to raise their daughter, it was tiresome to hear about how they were running low on money. Ruhlman should have stuck with writing cookbooks and about the lives of chefs, not his own life.

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