Pros & Cons
Cons
The author seems to be covering up his lack of research with a rather maudlin bonding with a fellow cook. Better sources are biography magazine's article about her and leavitt's typhoid captive to the public's health.
Highlights
Quality
The best parts of the book detail what goes on in a busy kitchen the psychology of how cooks think about patrons and the role t... Read More
He does this without whitewashing extraordinarily well
There is also a lot of intersting material on how cleanliness in the kitchens of the rich had become the rage around 1900
Short little paean to an unsung professional cook gone terribly wrong
Price
She left bequests totally 4650 when she died in 1938 from the money she saved while working in the laboratory
Shipping
This is a hard to find book that arrived within 10 days of ordering and in new condition
Competitiveness
Apparently she was an above average cook because she had an easier time staying employed than most cooks of the wealthy did at that time
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Chef and author bourdain is deeply missed
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Short little paean to an unsung professional cook gone terribly wrong
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A slice of american mythology served through the eyes of another professional chef
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If you dont know the story you should be aware that ms
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She was a poor single irish immigrant who had to depend on her own efforts to make her way
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In the early 1900s typhoid fever was a common disease
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About one in ten who contracted it died
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There was no treatment for it