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The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection, by Michael Ruhlman (Review)

By Daniel Wahl

May 20, 2016
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The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection, by Michael Ruhlman
New York: Penguin Books, 2001
370 pp. $18 (paperback).

Michael Ruhlman entered the office of Tom Peer, food and beverage director at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America. “I figured out where you’re going to be from,” Peer said. “You’re going to be from the National Council of A…

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