Making It: Success in the Commercial Kitchen

by Ellen Meiser

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over four million cooks and food-preparation workers employed in America's restaurants, not everyone makes it to the high-status position of chef. What factors determine who rises the ranks in this fiercely competitive pressure-cooker environment?

Making It explores how the career...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978840128
• ISBN13: 9781978840126
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher