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"Remember, it's not just about the food—it has to be an experience."Thirty-one-year-old Jesse Schenker has rocketed to the top of the culinary world. An__Iron Chef__winner and a James Beard nominee, he was voted Best New Chef by__New York__magazine, and his acclaimed Recette was named Best New Restaurant by the__New York Times__.__Manhattan__magazine has called him "a boy wonder . . . young, hungry, and talented," while Zagat has hailed him as a "wunderkind." But Jesse's epic rise masks a little-known past filled with demons and obsession, genius and mania."For as long as I can remember, I've had this unquenchable thirst to keep moving, going, and doing. I've never felt comfortable in my own skin and have always needed an outlet for that uneasiness." Jesse first found that outlet in the South Florida kitchens where he showed great promise as a teenager, but it was in those same kitchens that he was introduced to the world of hard drugs. He was fourteen when he first got arrested and seventeen when he became physically addicted to Oxycontin. Becoming a high school dropout addicted to heroin and crack, alienated from his family and wanted by the cops, by the age of twenty-one Jesse h

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Author

Schenker, Jesse

Publisher

Dey Street Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062339324

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Memoir, Cooking

Rating

3.25 / 5 (137 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14