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Rebel Chef

In Search of What Matters

by Dominique Crenn
Emma Brockes
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The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn
By the time Dominique Crenn decided to become a chef, at the age of twenty-one, she knew it was a near impossible dream in France where almost all restaurant kitchens were run by men. So, she left her home and everything she knew to move to San Francisco, where she would train under the legendary Jeremiah Tower. Almost thirty years later, Crenn was awarded three Michelin Stars in 2018 for her influential restaurant Atelier Crenn, and became the first female chef in the United States to receive this honor – no small feat for someone who hadn’t gone to culinary school or been formally trained.
 
In Rebel Chef, Crenn tells of her untraditional coming-of-age as a chef, beginning with her childhood in Versailles where she was emboldened by her parents to be curious and independent. But there is another reason Crenn has always felt free to pursue her own unconventional course. Adopted as a toddler, she didn't resemble her parents or even look traditionally French. Growing up she often felt like an outsider, and was haunted by a past she knew nothing about. But after years of working to fill this blank space, Crenn has embraced the power her history gives her to be whoever she wants to be.
 
Here is a disarmingly honest and revealing look at one woman's evolution from a daring young chef to a respected activist. Reflecting on the years she spent working in the male-centric world of professional kitchens, Crenn tracks her career from struggling cook to running one of the world’s most acclaimed restaurants, while at the same time speaking out on restaurant culture, sexism, immigration, and climate change. At once a tale of personal discovery and a tribute to unrelenting determination, Rebel Chef is the story of one woman making a place for herself in the kitchen, and in the world.

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    June 9, 2020

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593210963
      • File size: 150990 KB
      • Duration: 05:14:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      French-born chef Dominique Crenn, winner of three Michelin stars, provides a personal and thoughtful chronicle of her varied life and career--along with myriad examples of sexism in the professional kitchen. The work is replete with her observations and opinions. Despite Crenn's intensely interesting story, Hope Newhouse's narration lacks the appropriate grit. Her performance is workmanlike, at moments effective, but simplistic, and immature in tonal quality, all despite her pitch-perfect French pronunciations. Atelier Crenn, the chef's San Francisco restaurant, is described as a "must" when one is in San Francisco. Crenn is outspoken, gay, and creative, her health challenges not slowing her a bit. Her ultimate motive is to share that living itself is the greatest gift. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 13, 2020
      French-born, San Francisco–based chef Crenn, owner of Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn (also the title of her 2015 cookbook) and two other Bay Area restaurants, delivers an empowering memoir that celebrates female entrepreneurship. Crenn, born in 1965, was adopted at six months old by loving parents and raised in the suburbs of Paris and on her grandmother’s farm in Brittany, a place that ignited her passion for cooking. She talks of, as a woman, getting a “cold reception” from cooking schools in her native country, and, in 1989, moving to San Francisco, going to gay bars, and working in kitchens. She was 45 when she opened her first restaurant, Atelier Crenn: “Sometimes I get the sense that women over forty aren’t even supposed to be visible. Well, with respect, screw that.” Throughout, Crenn highlights her passion for organic ingredients (she makes sure her staff “has a chance to get out to the farm and reconnect with ingredients at a mineral level”) and celebrates her French culinary roots. Crenn talks of her achievements, among them preparing a dish for French president Emmanuel Macron, and of dealing with setbacks such as a breast cancer diagnosis (to which she responds: “I’m a warrior!”). This enthusiastic memoir will thrill foodies and inspire hopeful chefs.

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