In the kitchen
Subtitle: a novel
By: Monica Ali
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781416571681; 9781416571698; 9781416579007
Subjects: Cooks; Restaurants; Hotels; Fiction
Description: In this story of the rich and fascinating London subculture of chefs and kitchen denizens, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, is trying to run a tight kitchen but his integrity--to say nothing of his sanity--is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own, and a worker found dead in the kitchen's basement.