Most Popular Books by Gabe Ulla

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Fortune, Parade, The New York Public Library, Garden & Gun In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. It would have been impossible to know it at the time—and certainly Chang would have bet against himself—but he, who had failed at almost every endeavor in his life, was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question, “What if the underground could become the mainstream?” Chang grew up the youngest son of a deeply religious Korean American family in Virginia. Graduating college aimless and depressed, he fled the States for Japan, hoping to find some sense of belonging. While teaching English in a backwater town, he experienced the highs of his first full-blown manic episode, and began to think that the cooking and sharing of food could give him both purpose and agency in his life. Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang’s switchback path. He lays bare his mistakes and wonders about his extraordinary luck as he recounts the improbable series of events that led him to the top of his profession. He wrestles with his lifelong feelings of otherness and inadequacy, explores the mental illness that almost killed him, and finds hope in the shared value of deliciousness. Along the way, Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry’s history of brutishness and its uncertain future.

The highly anticipated cookbook from the Michelin-starred restaurant, written by acclaimed chef Nick Curtola, James Murphy, James Beard Award–winning wine director Justin Chearno, and co-author Gabe Ulla. Much like the irresistibly warm restaurant that inspires it, The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times is about more than just amazing food. The story begins in 2014, when four friends with practically zero restaurant experience between them naively decided to open a restaurant in New York City. They called the place The Four Horsemen, and they hired a largely unknown chef, Nick Curtola, to lead its tiny kitchen. Even though they did almost everything wrong at the start, The Four Horsemen now has a Michelin star, a waiting list for tables seven nights a week, and a James Beard Award for the best wine program in the United States—not to mention a global reputation as a must-visit destination in New York City. Of Curtola’s food, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells wrote, in a glowing review, “The effortlessly casual plates are not, in fact, effortless or casual, a realization that only dawns on you as you’re wondering why this sausage or that pickle is the best thing you’ve tasted in ages.” In the acclaimed restaurant’s debut cookbook, Curtola explains his approach to simplicity with warmth, clarity, and more than 100 recipes. The book begins with a humorous and moving introduction by co-founder James Murphy, which sets the stage for Curtola’s writing and recipes, casual and informative essays by natural wine pioneer Justin Chearno, and appearances by Murphy and Chearno’s fellow horsemen Christina Topsøe and Randy Moon. Throughout, readers will also find suggestions related to a subject on which the four unwitting friends were experts long before they built the restaurant: how to have fun. Includes Photographs and Illustrations

Um livro de memórias corajoso e bem-humorado sobre os sucessos e decepções de um dos grandes nomes da culinária mundial. Como um filho de imigrantes, que teve um desempenho ruim na escola e foi um prodígio do golfe, depois formou-se em teologia na universidade e estudou gastronomia por apenas seis meses, ocupando cargos de pouco prestígio em um punhado de cozinhas, abriu um restaurante em Manhattan que rapidamente revolucionaria a culinária mundial? Em seu saboroso livro de memórias, que logo se tornou best-seller do New York Times, David Chang – chef do Momofuku responsável pelo boom da cozinha ásio-americana contemporânea – procura explicar sua ascensão meteórica enquanto tenta, ele mesmo, compreendê-la. O resultado é um misto de relato íntimo e reflexivo de impressionante franqueza com uma crônica bem-humorada dos bastidores do mundo dos restaurantes no século XXI. "Das cozinhas estreladas às calçadas de NYC em 11 de setembro... This is Dave Chang!" — Alex Atala "David Chang é mágico." — Ferran Adrià, considerado um dos melhores chefs do mundo "Todo o hype é justificado. [...] David Chang deu uma nova direção ao ramo dos restaurantes e da gastronomia." — Anthony Bourdain, autor de Cozinha confidencial "Uma autobiografia franca e vulnerável que vai te fazer rir e chorar ao mesmo tempo. [...] Uma leitura absolutamente imperdível." — CNN