Acknowledgments.

Foreword.

Preface.

1. Chefs: Yesterday and Toady.

2. Early Influences: Discovering a Passion for Food.

3. Cooking Schools: Learning in the Classroom.

4. Apprenticing: Learning in the Kitchen.

5. Getting In: Starting at the Bottom.

6. Developing as a Cook: The Next Level.

7. The Business of Cooking: Operating and Running a Restaurant.

8. Travel, Eating, and Reading: Learning Something New Everyday.

9. Preserving in the Face of Reality: Through Bad Times and Good.

10. What’s Next?: The Chef as Alchemist.

Appendix A: Selected Professional Cooking Schools in the United States and Abroad.

Appendix B: Leading Culinary Organizations.

Appendix C: Selected Culinary Media and Resources.

Appendix D: Brief Biographies of Chefs Interviewed.

Index.