num_pages: 269
description: Rick Tramonto started as a high school dropout working at Wendy's; he became one of the hottest celebrity chefs in the world. Yet his rise to culinary success was marked with tragedy loss and abandonment. As a teenager Rick worked to support the family when his father (who had Mob ties) went to prison. As a young adult he struggled with a learning disability and drug addiction. Yet as a chef he rose rapidly to culinary stardom earning rave reviews and eventually opening the famous four-star establishment Tru. From the outside it looked like he had everything he ever wanted; his lifelong hunger for meaning should have been more than met. But on the inside his life and his marriage were falling apart. And then one night a voice on the radio changed everything. Containing recipes and color photos Scars of a Chef is the mesmerizing rags-to-riches memoir of one chef's journey through the highest heights and the lowest lows of the culinary world . . . and his search for something that would finally heal his wounds and sustain him through even the darkest times.
language: English
title: Scars of a Chef: The Searing Story of a Top Chef Marked Forever by the Grit and Grace of Life in the Kitchen
publisher: SaltRiver