Comments on: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine http://paperpalate.net/2006/06/04/life_and_death_in_haute_cuisine/ Food and wine in magazines and newspapers, cookbook reviews Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:52:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: dejamo http://paperpalate.net/2006/06/04/life_and_death_in_haute_cuisine/#comment-295 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:29:28 +0000 http://paperpalate.net/2006/06/04/life_and_death_in_haute_cuisine/#comment-295 Thanks, Nicole. I think you've hit it in a nutshell--I never felt as if I were there in his kitchen. As I mentioned in the review, the book was meticulously researched, but the details were presented in a dry, "as reported by" kind of way.<br /> <br /> I've seen this book compared to Kitchen Confidential but in my opinion it doesn't come close to the immediacy of that book.<br /> <br /> This doesn't mean I don't think the book is worth reading. It provides an excellent history of the rise of Michelin as the final word in rating cuisines, and of French cuisine in the twentieth century. Perhaps if the author had used Loiseau's story as the backframe for those histories, instead of the other way around, the book would have been more successful for me. Thanks, Nicole. I think you’ve hit it in a nutshell–I never felt as if I were there in his kitchen. As I mentioned in the review, the book was meticulously researched, but the details were presented in a dry, “as reported by” kind of way.

I’ve seen this book compared to Kitchen Confidential but in my opinion it doesn’t come close to the immediacy of that book.

This doesn’t mean I don’t think the book is worth reading. It provides an excellent history of the rise of Michelin as the final word in rating cuisines, and of French cuisine in the twentieth century. Perhaps if the author had used Loiseau’s story as the backframe for those histories, instead of the other way around, the book would have been more successful for me.

]]> by: nicole http://paperpalate.net/2006/06/04/life_and_death_in_haute_cuisine/#comment-296 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:55:25 +0000 http://paperpalate.net/2006/06/04/life_and_death_in_haute_cuisine/#comment-296 excellent review, these types of books are usually my favortie to read, a behind the curtain of sorts, but from what you said, seems that Chelminski was unsuccessful on bring fact and passion together. you saved me time now, i don't have to read it. did he write this chef's story as if you could have been in his kitchen?<br /> excellent review, these types of books are usually my favortie to read, a behind the curtain of sorts, but from what you said, seems that Chelminski was unsuccessful on bring fact and passion together. you saved me time now, i don’t have to read it. did he write this chef’s story as if you could have been in his kitchen?

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