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2023 Global Book Awards Gold Medalist in Womens
BiographiesAmazon Best Seller in Biographies amp
Memoirs of ChefsAmazon Best Seller in Dining
Travel ReferenceAmazon Best Seller in
Professional CookingDisadvantages be damned, I
would be a chef someday, and if I had to run into
the side of a house to do it, so be it Mise en
Place is the rollicking memoir of Marisa Mangani,
a talented chef who takes readers on her journey
through the mostly men 8217 s club of restaurant
kitchens as she travels from Hawaii to Oregon,
New Orleans, Canada, Australia, and Florida Along
the way she shares raw revelations abuse at the
hands of her stepfather, stories of love and
loss, the pain of stuttering, a great passion for
cuisine, and the heady sensations associated with
food and motherhood Not just a gifted chef,
Mangani is a very accomplished writer who brings
us into her world with brio and humor She holds
nothing back, as she describes her struggles for
acceptance in her field and her stumbles and
hard-won successes along the way Mise en Place
will appeal to all who love food and restaurants,
but it 8217 s also a vivid travelogue of the
places the author has lived Mangani has a
beautifully hedonistic take on food, wine, and
life 8212 and her intense descriptions bring
readers front and center into her world as she
tries to carve out a living Her details of the
inner workings of restaurant kitchens are quite
enlightening If readers don 8217 t already know
how hard the hospitality business can be on
anyone who works in it, not just chefs, but
owners, managers, servers, and dishwashers, they
will once they 8217 ve walked in Mangani 8217 s
shoes Mise en Place is a bold, new memoir that
readers will find hard to put down Mangani charts
a deep dive through the roots of our modern
American food obsession with a highly personal
tale of memory, character, flavor, and place 8221
8212 Ian McNulty, Food Writer, The
Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate A foodie
from the minute she first spat out her
grandmother 8217 s lima beans, Marisa Mangani was
destined to become a chef 8212 even if she didn
8217 t know such a thing existed Swirling with
tastes and scents, her memoir chronicles an
unconventional life, a life beginning in
near-poverty and forged in a succession of
kitchens and restaurants The kitchen became
Mangani 8217 s sandbox, the place where she
discovered her calling and confidence 8216 Good
food always gave me hope for better times, 8217
she writes Like a good hollandaise sauce, Mise en
Place Memoir of a Girl Chef satisfies the palate
8221 8212 Pam Schmid, Nonfiction Editor, Sleet
Magazine Mise en Place Memoir of a Girl Chef is a
bitingly honest view of a life lived in oyster
bars, fish camps, and restaurant kitchens
Flavorful, rich, and evocative, Marisa Mangani
8217 s memoir offers readers not just tales of
food and cooking, but a provocative examination
of the choices we make and the pasts
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that might have been 8221 8212 Dinty W Moore,
Author of To Hell with It Readers of Gabrielle
Hamilton and David Chang will devour this memoir
about Marisa Manganis journey to become a chef
What began as a way to make a living became a
passion for Marisa Mise en Place takes us through
kitchens from Maui to New Orleans to Oregon, and
back again, with endless colorful characters and
exciting adventures along the way If you have
ever wondered what is happening behind the
kitchen doors at your local restaurant, this is
the book for you 8221 8212 Amy Fish, Author of I
Wanted Fries with That