Last Morning at Nora's Table: A Chef's Memoir with Recipes

Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential meets Ina Garten's Be Ready When the Luck Happens in this deliciously reflective memoir of one woman as she recounts her journey of becoming an accomplished chef-the hard way.

The kitchen saved Kathy Watson's life.

In the midst of a recession, Kathy is running two restaurants with the passion of a gastronome who grew up on freshly farmed food-and the limitations of a chef who has little formal culinary education. That lack of training, a perceived sho...