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Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants
By Steve Lerach (B.A. ’96, M.L.S. ’07)
Minnesota Historical Society Press/Borealis Books, 2008
For
200 years, dating back to the era of France’s King Louis XVI, an odd
collection of chefs and cooks have served the dining public. Fried
interweaves the history of restaurants with stories from the author’s
30 years of working in the food industry. Lerach started as a
restaurant dishwasher and worked his way up to professional chef,
including running the kitchens at the University of Minnesota. With
humor and poignancy, he tells the tales from behind the lines, complete
with the personal and often tragic stories of the characters who found
livelihoods and acceptance in restaurant kitchens.
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