KITCHEN SHELF
HUNGRY
Jeff Gordinier
Icon Books, $39.99
Imagine this. You’re a food writer, and one day the co-founder of a restaurant repeatedly named the best in the world, the man commonly believed to be the greatest chef on earth, invites you for coffee. After first checking it’s not a prank email from your colleagues, the only logical response would be a resounding “YES!”. This was not, however, the reaction of Jeff Gordinier, then a food writer for The New York Times. Jeff was doubtful from the moment René
