Nine Lives: A Chef’s Journey from Chaos to Control, by Brandon BaltzleyRead about the other books on the list.
The hard-living, tattooed chef is something of a clichĂ© now, thanks to potty-mouthed geniuses like Anthony Bourdain, but Chef Baltzley, once called “the Salvador DalĂ of cooking,” has wrestled as many demons as any of them and lived to tell the harrowing tale.
--Marshal Zeringue