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David Chang competed in golf at junior elite level, studied religious studies and worked briefly in finance before applying to culinary school. He was deeply unhappy throughout that entire period, and that is where the book begins.
It then turns to what it cost to build Momofuku. Bipolar disorder, anger and a striking ambivalence towards the success he had worked so hard to create. He is unvarnished about how he behaved as a boss and what that did to the people around him.
The restaurant industry has a real problem with mental ill health, and this is the most honest book about it to have reached a broad audience.
The title comes from T.S. Eliot's poem about Prufrock, in which he asks whether he dares to eat a peach.
There are no recipes here. It is a memoir and a view inside the restaurant industry a generation after Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. Written with Gabe Ulla.
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
Language: English
First published: 2020
