A Cook’s Life
Lantern, $39.95 hb, 362 pp
Food
The apotheosis of Stephanie Alexander
by Gay Bilson •
Most present-day Australian chefs (that is to say, cooks who earn a living through their training, practice, and culinary skills) who have written cookbooks are at the same time telling us about themselves. Is it not curious that, in general, cooks repeatedly praise the table for its central role in hospitality, conviviality, generosity, and equality, yet seem so needful of, so greedy for, praise?
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