In the kitchen : a novel / Monica Ali.
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TextPublication details: New York : Scribner, 2009. Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover edDescription: 436, [1] p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781416571681; 141657168X; 9781416571698 (pbk.); 1416571698 (pbk.); 9781416579007 (ebook); 1416579001 (ebook)Subject(s): Hotels -- England -- London -- Fiction | Cooks -- Fiction | Restaurants -- Fiction | London (England) -- FictionLOC classification: PR6101.L45 | I5 2009Summary: In this story of the rich and fascinating London subculture of chefs and kitchen denizens, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, is trying to run a tight kitchen but his integrity--to say nothing of his sanity--is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own, and a worker found dead in the kitchen's basement.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]).
In this story of the rich and fascinating London subculture of chefs and kitchen denizens, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, is trying to run a tight kitchen but his integrity--to say nothing of his sanity--is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own, and a worker found dead in the kitchen's basement.