Renton Technical College Library

Cooks Biographies

 

Websites
 
StarChefs.com
Links to web pages, recipes and biographies of 100 famous chefs.
 
In Seattle's Kitchens, 6 Degrees
Seattle Times article (November 18, 2007) on local chefs and restaurants. 
 
 
Below are just a sampling of Renton Technical College library materials 
containing cooks biographies.
 
 
 
Title Call Number
Henderson, J. (2007). Cooked: From the streets to the stove, from cocaine to foie gras. New York: William Morrow. 364.177092 HENDERS 2007
Finigan, R. (2006). Corks & Forks: Thirty 
years of wine and food. Emeryville, CA: 
Shoemaker & Hoard. 
641.013 FINIGAN 2006.
Mannke, J. and J. DeMers. (2007).  Wanderlust:
The life of a globetrotting chef. 	Houston, TX :
 Bistro Le Cep. 
641.30092 FERRARY 2006
Ferrary, J. (2004). Out of the kitchen. 
McKinleyville, CA: John Daniels
641.30092 FERRARY 2004
Bourdain, A. (2000). Kitchen confidential :
adventures in the culinary underbelly.  
New York: Bloomsbury.
641.5092 BOURDAI 2000
Brandon, R. (2004). The people's chef: 
The Culinary Revolutions of Alexis Soyer.
New York: Walker. 
641.5092 BRANDON 2004
Hamilton, D. and P. Kuh, Eds. (2007). Chef's
story: 27 chefs talk about what got them
into the kitchen.  New York: Harper Collins.
641.5092 CHEFS 2007
Claiborne, C. (1982). Craig Claiborne's
A feast made for laughter.  Garden City, 
N.Y.: Doubleday.  
641.5092 CLAIBO 1982
Clark, R. (1993). James Beard : a 
biography.  New York: HarperCollins.
641.5092 CLARK 1993
Clark, R. (1996). The solace of food:
a life of James Beard. South Royalton, Vt.:
Steerforth Press.
641.5092 CLARK 1996
Clark, Gillian. (2007). Out of the frying pan:
 A chef's memoir of hot kitchens, single 
motherhood, and the family meal. New York:
 St. Martin's Press.
641.5092 CLARK 2007
 Davis, D.  (1999). If you can stand the 
heat : tales from chefs & Restaurateurs.
New York: Penguin Books.   
641.5092 DAVIS-D 1999
Fitch, N. R. (1997) Appetite for life: the 
biography of Julia Child. New York: 
Doubleday.  
641.5092 FITCH 1997
Franey, P., Flaste, R. & Miller, B.  (1994). 
A chef's tale : a memoir of food, France, 
and America. New York: A.A. Knopf.
641.5092 FRANEY 1994
Irvine, R. (2007). Mission, cook! New York:
Harper Collins. 
641.59 IRVINE 2007
Jones, E. (1992). Epicurean delight : the 
life and times of James Beard.  New York:
Simon & Schuster.
641.5092 JONES 1992
Jones, J.  (2007). The tenth muse: My life
in food. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
641.5092 JONES 2007
Lee, S. (2007). Made from Scratch. Des 
Moines, IA: Meredith.
641.5092 LEE-S 2007
McNamee, T. (2007). Alice Waters and
Chez Panisse. New York: Penguin. 
641.5092 MCNAMEE 2007
Moore, J. (1997). Never eat your heart
out.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
 641.5092 MOORE 1997

Olney, R. (2005). Reflexions. New York:

Brick Tower Press.

641.5092 OLNEY 2005
Pender, Jesse. (2007). From a cat house 
to the White House: The story of an 
African-American chef. Baltimore, MD: 
PublishAmerica.
641.5092 PENDER 2007
Ramsey, G. ( 2007). Roasting in Hell's 
Kitchen: Temper tantrums, F words, 
and the pursuit of perfection.  New York:
Harper.
641.5092 RAMSAY 2007
Ruhlman, M. (1997).  The making of 
a chef : mastering heat at the Culinary
Institute of America.  New York: Henry Holt. 
641.5092 RUHLMAN 1997
Ruhlman, M. (2000). The soul of a chef:
the journey toward perfection. New York:
Viking.
641.5092 RUHLMAN 2000
Sanger, M.B. (1976). Escoffier: Master 
chef. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
641.5092 SANGER 1976
Simpson, N. (2006). Gordon Ramsay:
The biography. London: John Blake. 
641.5092 SIMPSON 2006
Smith, G. (2006). Jamie Oliver: Turning
up the heat: A biography. London: 
Andre Deutsch.
641.5092 SMITH 2006
Tower, J.  (2004). California dish.
New York: Free Press.
641.5092 TOWER 2004
Turner, M. T. (2004). Emeril: Inside 
the amazing success of today's most 
popular chef.  Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 
641.5092 TURNER 2004
White, M. P. & J. Stein. (2007). The devil 
in the kitchen: Sex, pain, madness, and the 
making of a great chef. New York: Bloomsbury. 
641.5092 WHITE 2007
 Clayton, B. (1993). Bernard Clayton's 
cooking across America : cooking
with more than 100 of North 
America's best cooks and 250 of
their favorite recipes. New York: 
Simon & Schuster.
641.509227 CLAYTON 1993
Baker-Clark, C.A. (2006). Profiles from the 
kitchen: What great cooks have taught 
us about ourselves and our food. Lexington,
KY: University Press of Kentucky.
641.5092273 Baker-C 2006.
Mendelson, A. (1996).  Stand facing the 
stove : the story of the women who gave 
America the Joy of cooking. New York: H. Holt.
641.5092273 MENDEL 1996
LaFemina, J. (2006). A man & his meatballs:
The hilarious but true story of a self-taught 
chef and restaurateur.  New York: Harper Collins.
641.5945 LAFEMIN 2006.
 Child, J. & Barr, N.V. (1995).  In Julia's kitchen
with master chefs. New York: Knopf. 
641.5973 CHILD 1995i
 
 

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