SIGNED David Chang Memoir 1st Print Eat a Peach Momofuku Korean Chef AAPI Cook

Description: DAVID CHANG is the chef and founder of Momofuku. Since opening his first restaurant, Momofuku Noodle Bar, in 2004, he has received six James Beard Awards and has been recognized as GQ's Man of the Year and a Time 100 honoree. In 2018, Chang formed Majordomo Media. He is the host of The Dave Chang Show podcast and two Netflix original documentary series, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner and Ugly Delicious. His cookbook, Momofuku, is a New York Times bestseller. In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan's East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in styrofoam cups. It would have been impossible to know it at the time and certainly Chang would have bet against himself-but he, who had failed at almost every endeavor in his life, was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question "What if the underground could become the mainstream?" Chang grew up the youngest son in a deeply religious Korean American family in Virginia. Graduating from college aimless and depressed, he fled the States for Japan, hoping to find some sense of belonging. While teaching English in a backwater town, he experienced the highs of his first full-blown manic episode, and began to think that the cooking and sharing of food could give him both purpose and agency in his life. Full of candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang's switchback path. He lays bare his mistakes and wonders about his extraordinary luck as he recounts the improbable series of events that led him to the top of his protession. He wrestles with his lifelong feelings of otherness and inadequacy, explores the mental illness that almost killed him, and finds hope in the shared value of deliciousness. Along the way Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry's history of brutishness and its uncertain future. Eat a Peach is an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. SIGNED first edition, first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice, clean condition (please see photos).

Price: 18.95 USD

Location: San Francisco, California

End Time: 2024-11-04T20:49:52.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.95 USD