Recent review for Chasing the Heat. Very heartwarming comments . So glad I stayed with the writing the last three years. Thank you for the support. If you’re looking for a good read that is honest, informative and entertaining, you won’t be disappointed with Chasing the Heat by Leonard Gentieu. It’s like a favorite dish you prepare for company simply because it’s good and you want to share it. Gentieu’s high-energy book is about food, but it’s not a cookbook. It’s about coping, but it’s not pop psychology. It’s about business and entrepreneurship, but it’s not facts and figures or hi-tech. Finally, it’s about inspiration and success, but it’s not religious. Like a many-layered onion you peel before slicing, CTH is all about flavor – in this case, many “flavors,” or life experiences in the food service and restaurant industry. It’s the story of a boy who liked to cook and a journey that begins with a dream and ends wearing a professional chef’s hat and white jacket. Along the way he stops to graduate from the Culinary Institute of America, cooks for generals in the U.S. Army, sets a world record, opens and closes a series of successful restaurants and finally owns and operates a yacht charter business. Spanning “50 years and a million meals,” Chef Len’s professional expertise is complimented by a story telling skill that is reality-based. Nothing is sugar coated. Few insider details are left unsaid. He tells it like it is in a style that is direct, easy to understand and enlivened with enthusiasm, a writer who truly writes for his readers. He takes you unflinchingly into a restaurant kitchen and plunks you squarely behind a hot stove. Then he throws one problem after another at you, solving each in turn with humor and expertise so that you can experience the solutions vicariously, without putting on an oven mitt or leaving the comfort of your reading chair. CTH is like a practical text book about the food service and restaurant industry, what it is really like and what happens before, during, and after your order is taken, cooked and served. His personal industry story is told in such an honest and entertaining way that you find yourself laughing one minute, sympathizing the next and finally wishing you were there. Read this book and you can be; you’ll know exactly what I mean!
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:44:50 +0000
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