THE SOUL OF A CHEF: The Journey Toward Perfection.
THE SOUL OF A CHEF: The Journey Toward Perfection, by Michael Ruhlman.
"An Eye Toward Perfection: The Shaker Museum and Library," is the special exhibition that will be on display during the run of the antiques show.
Two places to find it, in muted form, are "The Last Days of Haute Cuisine" (Viking; $24.95), by Patric Kuh, and "The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection" (Penguin; $15), by Michael Ruhlman.
Nevertheless, in "The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection," Ruhlman sets out to perform a task even restaurant insiders would find difficult: to delve so deeply into the hearts and minds of a few select chefs that he may discover the essence of haute cuisine.
But their tendency is toward perfection.
Today, they take another precious step toward perfection.
I wonder if, at that point, the path toward perfection becomes dangerously obsessive".
Progress toward perfection has genuine skeptics, who insist on sticking with marginalized tools.
My dictionary defines progress as an advance toward perfection... Once, you just.
Ms. Letinsky's ambivalence toward perfection is mirrored in her personal life.
