Cutting It Fine

Tells you everything you want to know about what goes on in the kitchen... Parkinson is a professional to his scarred fingertips, and impressively honest * Independent *
Packed with good information, with plenty of enlightening detail about what it's really like to work in a London kitchen. Anyone who works at the coalface of the capital's restaurant scene should buy this book. It will tell you more than Kitchen Confidential ever could about the realities of kitchen work * Time Out *
This detailed account painstakingly punctures the idea of cheffing as a glamorous profession. The hard, repetitive work is conveyed in all its tedium - and adrenalin-fuelled excitement * Guardian *
An English equivalent of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential * Independent *
A warts-and-all account of the real world beyond the kitchen door * Independent on Sunday *