{"id":1968,"date":"2010-08-17T00:27:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T04:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2010-08-05T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:33:05","slug":"book-review-the-soul-of-a-chef-the-journey-toward-perfection-by-michael-ruhlman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/2010\/08\/17\/book-review-the-soul-of-a-chef-the-journey-toward-perfection-by-michael-ruhlman\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Soul Of A Chef \u2013 The Journey Toward Perfection by Michael Ruhlman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is Michael Ruhlman&#8217;s second in-depth book into the world of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). His first book being The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America.<\/p>\n<p>The Soul Of A Chef takes a look at the grueling Certified Master Chef exam at the CIA, the most influential cooking school in America. Ruhlman is given a free pass to enter and watch as seasoned chefs from across the country put themselves through this culinary gauntlet. Of which only a slim, almost nonexistent, few have the privileged of gaining the title of Master Chef.<\/p>\n<p>Ruhlman also has a couple chapters on a  new friend, Michael Symon. An up and coming chef from Cleveland. And the Legen&#8230;wait for it&#8230;dary Thomas Keller, a man who needs no introduction to anyone in the industry. Michael also meets and befriends a chef taking the CMC exam, Brian Polcyn. Who by the way, I found myself cheering for him to pass the exam. But does he? You&#8217;ll have to read it and find out.<\/p>\n<p>I have enjoyed all the books by Michael Ruhlman and this one is no different. I found inspiration and passion reading this book. I only hope you do too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is Michael Ruhlman&#8217;s second in-depth book into the world of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). His first book being The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America. The Soul Of A Chef takes a look at the grueling Certified Master Chef exam at the CIA, the most &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/2010\/08\/17\/book-review-the-soul-of-a-chef-the-journey-toward-perfection-by-michael-ruhlman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: The Soul Of A Chef \u2013 The Journey Toward Perfection by Michael Ruhlman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,56,1],"tags":[90,156,157,154,155],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","category-reviews","category-uncategorized","tag-book-review","tag-cia","tag-cmc","tag-michael-ruhlman","tag-the-soul-of-a-chef","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOYtb-vK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notesonameal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}