Back of the House, Scott Haas
Back of the House, Scott Haas
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Back of the House
The Secret Life of a Restaurant

Author: Scott Haas

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/25/2013

Categories: Cooking, Nonfiction


Synopsis

Food writer and clinical psychologist Scott Haas wanted to know what went on inside the mind of a top chef—and what kind of emotional dynamics drove the fast-paced, intense interactions inside a great restaurant. To capture all the heat and hunger, he spent eighteen months immersed in the kitchen of James Beard Award-winner Tony Maws's restaurant, Craigie on Main, in Boston. He became part of the family, experiencing the drama first-hand. Here, Haas exposes the inner life of a chef, what it takes to make food people crave, and how to achieve greatness in a world that demands more than passion and a sharp set of knives.

A lens into what motivates and inspires all chefs—including Thomas Keller, Andrew Carmellini, whose stories are also shared here—Back of the House will change the way you think about food—and about the complicated people who cook it and serve it.

About Scott Haas

A clinical psychologist and food writer, Scott Haas has contributed to publications such as Gourmet, Saveur, Robb Report, Worth, Wine Enthusiast, and Gastronomica. He is the author of Hearing Voices and Are We There Yet? and coauthor of The Da Silvano Cookbook. Scott received the James Beard Award for radio work in 2004. He is the chief psychologist at a private psychiatric hospital in Brookline, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mme

The author is both a clinical psychologist and a food writer, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised at the lack of focus in this book. I would have been happy if the book had been a detailed psychological study of what makes a good chef, or what drives a person to become a chef, or how a person's psychol......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

Disclaimer - I won this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway. My copy was an ARC, and the book may have been edited before publication. I really don't know what to think of this one. While it was fast paced, and at times very interesting - I'm not quite sure what the point was. Was this a psychol......more