Standing the Heat
TIME Magazine (not Time but TIME!) has a review of five new books, fictional and non-, about life in a restaurant’s back office. Writer Lev Grossman frames his roundup in “the post-Bourdainian era:”
It was invisible then. Now we recognize it right away: this is Anthony Bourdain’s world. … He changed our whole cultural idea of what a kitchen is. Pre-Bourdain, it was a warm, cozy, maternal place. Now it’s a profane, brutal, masculine crucible, where human frailty is rendered away like so much tasty bacon fat.
A fun read even if you have no intention of picking up the books discussed.
