| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
436 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Flames leap, plates fly -- knives and fingers, too. They're also the default place immigrants, legal and otherwise, find work. At London's Imperial Hotel, the setting for Monica Ali's In the Kitchen, nobody speaks the same language and everybody is underpaid. Ali, acclaimed author of Brick Lane, nails the killer heat, killer fights and lethal grease buildup, all of it supervised by a simmering culinary Heathcliff, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef.Lightfoot dropped out of school at 16 to begin paying his kitchen dues, working crazy hours with crazy people while studying food chemistry and Brillat-Savarin. |
| Subject |
Hotels -- England -- London -- Fiction.
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Cooks -- Fiction.
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Restaurants -- Fiction.
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London (England) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781416571681 |
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141657168X |
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9781416571698 paperback |
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1416571698 paperback |
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