Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef Audiobook (Free)

With the wit and pace of Anthony Bourdain, Italian chef and anthropologist Leonardo Lucarelli sketches the exhilarating life behind the closed doors of restaurants, and the unlikely function ethics of the kitchen.

In Italy, five-star restaurants and celebrity chefs might seem, on the surface, an integral part of the surroundings. In reality, the restaurant market is as difficult, cutthroat, and unforgiving as anywhere else in the world–sometimes also colluding with the shady globe of organized crime. The powerful voice of Leonardo Lucarelli will take us through the underbelly of Italy’s restaurant world. Lucarelli is a professional chef who for almost two decades continues to be roaming Italy opening restaurants, training underpaid, sometimes hopelessly incompetent sous-chefs, courting waitresses, operating long hours, operating high on medications, and cursing a culinary passion he inherited as a teenager from his hippie father. In his debut, Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef, Lucarelli shows us that actually among rogues and misfits, there’s a moral code in the kitchen that must, above all