Mise en Place: Memoir of a Girl Chef

Disadvantages be damned, I would be a chef someday, and if I had to run into the side of a house to do it, so be it.

Mise en Place is the rollicking memoir of Marisa Mangani, a talented chef who takes readers on her journey through the mostly men's club of restaurant kitchens as she travels from Hawaii to Oregon, New Orleans, Canada, Australia, and Florida.

Along the way she shares raw revelations: abuse at the hands of her stepfather, stories of love and loss, the pain of stuttering, a great...