UK food writer Tim Hayward suggests the genre of confessional chef memoirs has become "increasingly formulaic": "The late nights, the fights, the hours the narcotics, fornication in the walk-in, rashes, burns and cuts... even the most fervent consumer of kitchenporn is progressively shellshocked, sickened and then mortally bored."
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