Eat Sleep Cook School!: A Year at Cookery School in the South of France

by Christopher Ward

I became a dishwasher in a gastronomic restaurant in Avignon, France, giving up a very successful 25-year career as a national newspaper journalist in England. This is the story of how I went to catering college in the South of France and qualified as a professional chef in one of the toughest professions in the world.

180 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 22, 2014

About the author

Christopher Ward is the grandson of Jock Hume and Mary Costin. He is a former editor of the Daily Express.

Reviews

[Mystica · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first one is an amazing story of how someone can change careers midway in life (after 25 years as a journalist) and to join a restaurant in Avignon, start at the bottom, work with people who are just teenagers and be treated as an imbecile half the time by your superiors.

The process is gruelling, the procedures and food turned out at these restaurants very good, The receipes at the end of each chapter, along with the short cuts used professionally and personally by the author were also of interest.

The treatment meted out to juniors in a kitchen by the Chefs was unimaginably hard though it seemed to be accepted by all!

[Lua · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun and interesting memoir of a British journalist who follows his dream of learning to cook professionally in France.