Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1524759643 ISBN13: 9781524759643 Release Date: July 2019 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) Length: 240 Pages Weight: 0.86 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4" A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with Ren Redzepi, the renowned chef of Noma, in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer. "If you want to understand modern restaurant culture, you need to read this book."--Ruth Reichl, author of Save Me the Plums Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for reinvention, for creative breakthroughs, and for connection. Feeling stuck in his work and home life, writer Jeff Gordinier happened into a fateful meeting with Danish chef Ren Redzepi, whose restaurant, Noma, has been called the best in the world. A restless perfectionist, Redzepi was at the top of his game but was looking to tear it all down, to shutter his restaurant and set out for new places, flavors, an