A taste for chefs' memoirs.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

As with many genres, chef's memoirs -- these hard-boiled tales of "sex and chopping" -- are instantly recognisable by their covers. The formula that seems to have begun with Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential continues with Marco Pierre White's The Devil in the Kitchen and, most recently, Cooking Dirty, by Jason Sheehan (who is notable within the genre for his relatively low status as a cook -- Sheehan is a successful food writer and multiple James Beard award -winner, but was never especially successful as a chef). A black-and-white photo of the chef in his whites, holding a somewhat threatening looking knife, glowers from under big, block …