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Scars of a Chef

The Searing Story of a Top Chef Marked Forever by the Grit and Grace of Life in the Kitchen

by Rick Tramonto
Lisa Jackson
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Rick Tramonto started as a high school dropout working at Wendy’s; he became one of the hottest celebrity chefs in the world. Yet his rise to culinary success was marked with tragedy, loss, and abandonment. As a teenager, Rick worked to support the family when his father (who had Mob ties) went to prison. As a young adult, he struggled with a learning disability and drug addiction. Yet as a chef, he rose rapidly to culinary stardom, earning rave reviews and eventually opening the famous four-star establishment Tru. From the outside, it looked like he had everything he ever wanted; his lifelong hunger for meaning should have been more than met. But on the inside, his life and his marriage were falling apart. And then, one night, a voice on the radio changed everything. Containing recipes and photos, Scars of a Chef is the mesmerizing rags-to-riches memoir of one chef’s journey through the highest heights and the lowest lows of the culinary world . . . and his search for something that would finally heal his wounds and sustain him through even the darkest times.

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  • Release date

    March 1, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

      • ISBN: 9781414352190

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      • ISBN: 9781414352190

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      • ISBN: 9781414352190
      • File size: 5502 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 14, 2011
      Chef and cookbook author Tramonto (Steak with Friends) has won acclaim for his restaurants and cookbooks, and in this memoir he takes readers into the kitchen to show them a chef's life. It ain't pretty, but it is edifying. As he was growing up in a volatile working-class family in Rochester, N.Y., Tramonto's dad was jailed for embezzlement, and young Rick, struggling with a learning disability, left high school in 1977 for his first culinary job, at Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers. He paid dues all along the way, working with terrifically talented and not a few temperamental chefs, succeeding (earning four-star reviews) and failing (losing a restaurant to fire, divorcing his culinary partner and wife, Gale Gand). As he narrates it, only when he hears a Christian radio broadcast one dark day in his car does he begin to find a way out. Tramonto and his co-writer favor speed over detail and successfully convey how driven and intensely focused the author's career has been. Anyone with a romantic view of the restaurant business should read this mea culpa and redemption tale.

    • Library Journal

      February 15, 2011

      Chef and cookbook author Tramonto (Steak with Friends) writes about the ups and downs of his life that have culminated in a career as a famous chef. As a teenager dealing with family problems and dyslexia, he dropped out of high school and began his career at Wendy's--an experience that led him to his calling. He graduated to another restaurant, Scotch 'N Sirloin, in Rochester, NY, and learned much along the way before his moves to New York City, Chicago, and Europe. With his first wife, pastry chef Gale Gand, he climbed the culinary ladder, opening restaurants (Chicago's Tru and others), writing cookbooks, and appearing on TV. Tramonto also writes about how his religious beliefs carried him through. Recipes (not seen) end each chapter. VERDICT Recommended for memoir readers who appreciate amazing stories of dedicated workers who succeed despite the odds.--Barb Kundanis, Longmont P.L., CO

      Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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