I just stumbled across this website for a Minneapolis restaurant called Hell’s Kitchen. It’s owned and run by two chefs, Steve Meyer and Mitch Omer. The latter has just written a new book called Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes From Hell’s Kitchen.
I have no idea if the restaurant is any cop, what the book is like or how good the recipes are but I loved the promo blurb that goes with Damn Good Food. Check this:
‘Damn Good Food is a cookbook with a heartbreaking as well as uplifting look into the belly (and heart) of the beast. Ann Bauer poignantly tells the story of Mitch Omer, a wildly creative award-winning chef, who hurled through most of his life setting fires, breaking limbs, drinking 24/7, getting fired, abusing drugs, gaining 200 pounds and barely avoiding suicide until he was finally diagnosed as bipolar. Properly medicated for the past several years, his wild ride settled down enough to open a successful Minneapolis restaurant, lose 170 pounds, enjoy a sane marriage to his third wife and provide hope to others. “I’ve been fixed,” he pouts as he glances at his crotch…and this is the story of his survival intertwined with ALL the recipes that put Hell’s Kitchen on the map.’
Motley Crue, eat your heart out. That sounds like a rocking cook book.