Generation Chef

Journalist Stabiner offers a behind-the-scenes look at the twists, turns, highs, and lows--emotional and financial--as young chef Jonah Miller puts everything on the line to enter the highly competitive New York City restaurant market. Cady McClain narrates this real-life story with with precision, understatement, and appropriate pacing as Miller opens Huertas, a Basque restaurant. But as the story unwinds and focus shifts to other chefs on the periphery, McClain seems to disappear, and her reading becomes less connected. Those who follow emerging chefs and those who desire to learn the details of starting restaurants will likely enjoy the exposition. W.A.G. � AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine