‘It’s said that with every end there are new beginnings, that when one chapter finishes a new one begins. But it’s not until you are faced with the finality of it all that new beginnings seem impossible. The free-fall of losing everything, the spiral towards the bottom, is terrifying.’
In this breathtaking book, Aaron Turner, one of the most critically acclaimed young chefs in Australia, charts the remarkable journey behind the first year of his new restaurant, IGNI, in Geelong. Searingly honest and astonishingly frank, it is a captivating and visually sumptuous meditation on food and flame, as well as the no-holds-barred account of a man who became familiar with the art of loss. And then, slowly, found himself again.