Quick notes from the signing today:
- Sheehan: pretty nice guy. Got to talk to him for a bit at the start; gave him a little pep talk to be a bigger "self-promoting dick" and sign stock of his book when he's in a book store.
- The book itself owes a lot -- likely, its entire existence -- to Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. The swagger, the cursing, the glorification of the camaraderie of the kitchen; it's all somewhat familiar.
- That said, Sheehan does at least one thing differently: this is unambiguously a book about Jason Sheehan's life. Whereas Bourdain's was a hybrid memoir/quasi-expose of the "real" restaurant business, Cooking Dirty concerns itself more with Sheehan's own personal relationship with food and cooking. If I'm reading this blog entry right, there would have been even more stuff about Jason Sheehan outside of the kitchen and with his ex-wife, but it sounds like she lawyered up, and out that went. Too bad.
Updated 2009-07-01 22:23:40 by anon