Notes from a Kitchen
A Journey Inside Culinary Obsession
In the Fall of 2009, provocative fine-artist, filmmaker and photographer Jeff Scott and chef Blake Beshore were working on re-envisioning a totally new type of modern cookbook experience. The authors were seeking to explore the raw emotional, psychological and physical experience of what a cookbook could be and to forever change both its form and function.
This beautifully crafted two-volume cloth-bound edition explores today’s great American chefs in their kitchens and in personal conversation. Using vibrant color photographs, documentary film footage and rare access to these chef’s private notebooks and journals, this new form of modern cookbook candidly explores the unique artistry that surrounds their craft. This immersive cinematic and stunningly visual culinary journal reveals an insiders perspective on today’s most exciting young chefs. Featured chefs include; Sean Brock, George Mendes, Johnny Iuzzini, Emma Hearst, Zak Pelaccio, Michael Laiskonis, Jason Neroni, Matt Gaudet, Joel Harrington and Neal Fraser.
Notes from a Kitchen is the first book produced which accurately portrays the daily creative lives of world-renowned chefs in both a visceral and intellectual format. Never before has a cookbook focused more intently on who a chef is as a person and why they place their culinary passion and obsessions before almost everything else in their lives.
This new culinary genre of psychological cookbook reveals the daily journey inside a chef’s creative mind.
