The Raging Skillet
eBook - ePub

The Raging Skillet

The True Life Story of Chef Rossi: A Memoir with Recipes

  1. 291 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Raging Skillet

The True Life Story of Chef Rossi: A Memoir with Recipes

About this book

"[A] juicy memoir about growing up, becoming a chef, and working as New York's most unconventional wedding caterer." — BUST magazine
 
When their high-school-aged, punk, runaway daughter is found hosting a Jersey Shore hotel party, Rossi's parents feel they have no other choice: they ship her off to live with a Chasidic rabbi in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Within the confines of this restrictive culture, Rossi's big city dreams take root. Once she makes her way to Manhattan, Rossi's passion for cooking, which first began as a revolt against the microwave, becomes her life mission. The Raging Skillet is one woman's story of cooking her way through some of the most unlikely kitchens in New York City—at a "beach" in Tribeca, an East Village supper club, and a makeshift grill at Ground Zero in the days immediately following 9/11. Forever writing her own rules, Rossi ends up becoming the owner of one of the most sought-after catering companies in the city. This heartfelt, gritty, and hilarious memoir shows us how the creativity of the kitchen allows us to give a nod to where we come from, while simultaneously expressing everything that we are. This "moving, witty memoir" (Nigella Lawson) includes unpretentious recipes for real people everywhere.
 
"A humorous and witty chronicle of a woman's pulling-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps rise through the culinary ranks." — Kirkus Reviews

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Recipes
  6. How I Became a Foodie Superhero
  7. Pesach on the Interstate
  8. Jewish Migration
  9. The Day Elvis Died
  10. Suicide Supper
  11. The Exodus
  12. Rebbe-Land USA
  13. Stabbing Magdalena
  14. The Matthew Rousseau
  15. Birth of a Chef
  16. Like Butter
  17. Delia’s
  18. The Amazon Club
  19. Provincetown, 1992
  20. The Last Sunset
  21. Ross by Way of Goldstein
  22. Wedding Caterer Blues
  23. Vagina Power
  24. Rabbis and Mozzarella
  25. Days of Awe
  26. Niko the Invincible
  27. Sandy, the Sauce, and Feminists
  28. The Last Road Trip
  29. The “Two Drops and a Plop” Impatient Cook’s Glossary
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. About the Author