Book details

  • Genre:cooking
  • Sub-genre:Essays & Narratives
  • Language:English
  • Pages:96
  • Paperback ISBN:9798989243327

You Can't Rush Onions

By Margot Mustich

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Overview

If you think survival in restaurant kitchens is all about cooking, think again.
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Description

What do you learn in a professional kitchen? Simple lessons that last a lifetime. In twelve reminiscences distilled from her experience as prep cook and line cook in one of New York's most popular restaurants, Margot Mustich reflects on the challenges she faced and the rewards that linger even now, decades later. You Can't Rush Onions is a book that will intrigue anyone who is curious about what happens behind restaurant kitchen doors. It's not just about technique, it's about survival, too, in a highly competitive, often chaotic milieu that taught the author much about cooking—and a lot more about life.
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About The Author

Margot Mustich threw herself into cooking full-time after working for many years in film production and publishing. Following a stint at a gourmet bake shop and catering business, and an apprenticeship in the kitchen of a private club in Manhattan, she landed a job at Union Square Café, where she went from prep cook to line cook in short order. She has raised a family; taught cooking classes; collaborated with her husband, Jim, on his book, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die (Workman, 2018); and written and self-published a cookbook, Simple Pleasures: Cooking from the Heart (2021). Her first children's book, When Grandmas Cook, was published by duopress (Sourcebooks) in 2024.
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