Don't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs Book

Don't try *what* at home? Acting like a pompous chef who knows it all and wants to tell you that you certainly don't? Reminds me of Chopped on the Food Network where some chefs get all snotty because they went to culinary school and other chefs, sorry 'cooks', didn't. There is only one true way of judging food - did you enjoy it or not? Who cares who prepared it or what training they had? If the food is awful then the fact it was prepared by a graduate of the Culinary Arts Institute isn't going to make up for it at all. Perhaps that's why so many of us go to restaurants and patisseries that state 'home-cooked', they've probably got a clientele because of their good cooking although, if someone else is paying, I'm very willing to go to a Michelin 3-star restaurant (no one so far has been willing).

The book is a series of anecdotes where the chefs do a lot of bragging. There was one story where the chef sets fire to the entree and brilliantly converts into a dish he gets praised for. That was about the best the book had to offer as the other anecdotes are tedious.

I only finished the book, months after starting it, because I was in a long bank queue and I'd read all the mortgage-loan-credit card literature and it was all I had. Yep, that boring.