"They don't respect me," he complained of the Ecuadorian line cooks. "Tell them! Tell them I can fire them if I want to." This was not what I was looking for in a sous-chef. If the cooks were giving him attitude, my telling them that the guy could fire them was not going to make them respect him.
- Anthony Bourdain
That's from Kitchen Confidential. It's an absolutely wonderful book. I don't know how well Bourdain cooks, but the boy can write.
ReplyDeleteWally,
ReplyDeleteCorrect you are. I got a copy for Christmas and have been enjoying it.