A moving, unaffected, delightfully honest book. He may have been one of the most disagreeable bastards ever to command a kitchen brigade, but in the same guileless, unfiltered way in which he cursed out sous-chefs, he's told one hell of a story.

David Kamp, New York Times Book Review

Bubbles over with pot-hurling, star-chasing antics that earned him the title The Devil in the Kitchen.

Vanity Fair

His memoir walks us through his career like a grand tasting menu.

San Francisco Chronicle

[The] story of the working-class boy from Leeds who grows up and becomes a world-class chef, is fascinating, especially in our food and chef-obsessed world. Revealing... a juicy tale.

Chicago Sun-Times

Compelling... There hasn't been a food memoir this deliciously wicked since Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. I learned more about what it's like to cook in a restaurant kitchen than from any other book I've read.

Portland Oregonian

Tantalizing.

Vogue