Kitchen Con: Writing on the Restaurant Racket - Softcover

"White has a knockabout charm and gift of the gab . . . His breathless style is delightfully punchy, witty, fluent and opinionated" (Mail on Sunday)

"A cracking read" (Sunday Independent)

"Lists the ways restaurants abuse us, their clientele" (The Observer)

"Trevor White writes with witty intelligence and a sharply elegant pen. Once this book has dropped into the frying pan, nothing will ever be the same in the restaurant world" (A.C. Grayling, philosopher and Booker Prize judge)

"An illuminating and witty polemic on culinary egomaniacs and our obsession with eating out" (The Times Magazine)

Kitchen Con is like no book that has ever been written before about restaurants. Intelligent, funny and stylish, it tells the story of a food critic who never quite learned to cook - the perfect emblem, as it transpires, for a culture in which most people read more menus than recipes.

Trevor White worked as a food critic in great cities across the globe before sitting down to write this memoir of life as a judge of the world's most expensive cooking. But Kitchen Con is not just a list of very good meals: it lifts the lid on the culinary cartel - celebrity chefs, guidebooks, odorous waiters - in a way that is both highly amusing and very brave.

If you have ever wondered why they call it the hospitality business, this is the book for you.