Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession

by Andrew Friedman

Book Overview

An all-access history of the evolution of the American restaurant chef

Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll transports readers back in time to witness the remarkable evolution of the American restaurant chef in the 1970s and '80s. Taking a rare, coast-to-coast perspective, Andrew Friedman goes inside Chez Panisse and other Bay Area restaurants to show how the politically charged backdrop of Berkeley helped draw new talent to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062225855
• ISBN13: 9780062225856
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"