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Monday, December 2nd, 2013

Here’s a fitting gift for a foodie in need of work

Friday, November 29, 2013 – 12:01 am
Just in time for the holidays and all the related excesses of food and celebrations of family traditions around the table – culinary author Irena Chalmers has come out with an informative and highly entertaining book on careers in the food industry: “Great Food Jobs 2: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Job Hunt” (Beaufort Books, 2013, $17.95 – also available as an e-book).Written as what Chalmers calls an expansion and companion to an earlier title (“Food Jobs: 150 Great Jobs for Culinary Students, Career Changers and Food Lovers,” 2008, $19.95), “Great Food Jobs 2” divides this massive industry into 10 areas of work: restaurants, retail, art, media, science, publicity, history, farming, education and relief work. In her introduction, she also makes this distinction: The people in these roles all share a passion for food, but not necessarily for cooking. Indeed, only a fraction of the jobs described in this book involve the actual preparation of food.

Each chapter includes a short list of three to 20 relevant job titles and descriptions of the work, as well as book recommendations, anecdotes and quirky trivia such as the menu for the last meal on the Titanic. Chalmers ends the book with short sections on job hunting and future trends in the food industry, both of which feel sufficient given the related information embedded in the earlier chapters.

What sets this book apart is the combination of delightful writing and the surprising applicability of Chalmers’ advice to people pursuing careers in almost any field. I honestly believe an electrical engineer could have as much fun reading this book as a pastry chef would. And both would walk away with career tips to apply in their respective fields.

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Great Food Jobs 2

Great Food Jobs 2: Ideas and Inspirations for Your Job Hunt is an almanac of eminently useful career guidance mixed with tasty bites of utterly useless gastronomical nonsense, including weird sushi combinations and odd names of bakeries such as “Nice Buns.” A companion to the award-winning Food Jobs: 150 Great Jobs for Culinary Students, Career Changers and Food Lovers, this second volume describes a wealth of careers in the food industry in and out of the kitchen. In an era of ‘txt msgs’, Chalmers’ Great Food Jobs is refreshingly erudite, urbane, wry, witty and consum-mately British. This sparkling, extraordinary compendium will astonish and amuse, inform and make you laugh out loud!

About: Irena Chalmers

Paperback: $17.95 (ISBN: 9780825306921)

E-book: $5.99 (ISBN: 9780825306525)

Cooking/Business & Economics

416 pages

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Food Jobs

Do you want to turn your passion for food into a career? Take a bite out of the food world with help from the experts in this first-of-its-kind What Color Is Your Parachute? for food related careers.

Maybe you’re considering culinary school, maybe you’re about to graduate, or maybe you’re looking for an exciting career change. How can you translate your zest for flavor into a satisfying profession? Should you become a chef or open a specialty foods shop, write cookbooks or try your hand at food styling? Culinary careers are as varied as they are fascinating-the only challenge is deciding which one is right for you. Filled with advice from food-world pros, including luminaries, such as Alice Waters, Chris Kimball, Betty Fussell, and Darra Goldstein, Food Jobs will set you behind the stove of your dream career.

In this tasty, nourishing book, food industry veteran Irena Chalmers offers profiles of food jobs by the dozen-everything from the traditional (maitre d’, caterer, dietician) to the behind-the-scenes (restaurant consultant, kitchen designer, hotel promoter) to the holy-cow-I-can-get-paid-for-that? (yacht chef, tea taster, fortune cookie message writer). Chalmers provides essential information for getting started and succeeding in your chosen culinary role including job descriptions, candid musings on what the job really entails and who it’s really for, and testimonials from the best in the field (Bobby Flay, Todd English, Gordon Hamersly, Francois Payard, Danny Meyer, Anthony Bourdain and more). Bursting with real-life wisdom from those who’ve been there, Food Jobs will expose you to the myriad of different food jobs available and guide you to the one that’s right for you.

About: Irena Chalmers

Paperback: $19.95 (ISBN: 9780825305924)

E-book: $4.99 (ISBN: 9780825306334)

Economics/Careers

400 pages

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