Megg’s Reviews > The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen > Status Update

Returning to this book because I was savoring it too long. Time to complete it this year. I love his story of a short country boy that barely saw over the wood fired oven when he started cooking and worked 7 days a week.

This chapter is 'Paris' ... 'A year had passed since I'd arrived in Paris, homeless and jobless, a rough country kid long on ambition and low on sophistication. ...'

Jacques brushes off the hardship he endured as a child and then as a young apprentice with such ease. You know it’s there but he doesn’t complain. It was the gig. He loved to cook and was restless without new challenges. That meant a TON of back breaking work and that is just what it would take. I so admire his humor through all these challenges he faced head on.

Love this book already. A hard working man's childhood starts with escaping in WWII. I'm hooked.