![]() ![]() Stairs, and to ask questions about what it is that lies behind our 'food porn'Ĭulture. I guess I wanted to look behind the scenes at what really goes on below Ranting and swearing, I still felt that what we get is quite a glossy, sanitized And even though we see the likes of Gordon Ramsay on the television, ![]() In the UK, and perhaps in the USA as well, we've become quite obsessed withĬhefs. What inspired you to write about the life of a chef? You get every different nationality down there, so they are It was always the kitchens that I was particularly drawn to. Penthouse suite at the top to the porter in the basement compacting rubbish. That gave me great accessĪnd once I had entered the world of hotels I knew that a hotel would be my main On the understanding that I would never identify them. London where I spent time in restaurant kitchens and in five big hotels, always North of England where sections of the novel are set but most of it was in ![]() Part of my year of intensive research was in the I spent a year researching the novel and several years before that thinkingĪbout it and reading around it. You rely upon any first-hand experience to bring the kitchen scenes to life? In the Kitchen vividly thrusts the reader into the sweaty, frenetic,Īlmost pirate-ship-like world of the kitchen in a major urban restaurant. Monica Ali discusses her third novel, In The Kitchen, which is set in the frenetic, almost pirate-ship-like world of the kitchen in a major urban restaurant (Q&A contains potential plot spoilers). ![]()
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