Accidentally on Purpose

Author: Kristen KishINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER TIME's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 New York Post's 30 Best Books for Spring Amazon's Best Books of the Month BookRiot's Best Books of April Queerty's Spring 2025 LGBTQ+ Books Town & Country's Must-Read Books of Spring 2025 From chef and Emmy-nominated host of Top Chef comes a tender, clear-eyed memoir charting a journey full of purpose, belonging, and real love--a "recipe for a life worth living" (Stacy London). Kristen Kish never could have imagined people on the street knowing her name--not when she was a carefree softball-tossing kid, in high school working at a pretzel stand, and not even when she finally found her true calling as a chef. In those early days, becoming a chef meant tethering oneself to a restaurant and working in the back of a kitchen, not a television set. But working in the spotlight happened naturally, even if the attention was totally unanticipated. And like most things in