Why I Cook av Tom Colicchio

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<B>Get an unprecedented look inside the mind and kitchen of America’s top chef in this memoir and cookbook by Tom Colicchio, the multiple-James Beard and Emmy Award-winning chef, restaurateur, and television personality.</B><BR/><BR/> Tom Colicchio cooked his first recipe at 13 years old—a stuffed eggplant from an issue of <I>Cuisine</I> magazine that he picked up out of boredom—and it changed his life. Now for the first time ever, Tom recounts the extraordinary personal journey that brought him from his working-class Italian background in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to the award-winning kitchens of New York City’s best restaurants, to the set of <I>Top Chef</I> and the stage of the Emmy Awards. Through 10 memoir chapters and 60 recipes,<I> Why I Cook</I> shares Tom’s personal reflections of more than 40 years behind the stove. From pre-dawn fishing excursions with his grandfather to running the flat-top at the snack shack of the