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Local chef turned author pens new book "When It's Done: The Making of A Chef"

Gretchen Hanson
Award-winning chef Gretchen Hanson has written a unique cookbook called, “When It’s Done: The Making of A Chef.”";s:3:

Not just a cookbook, but also a chef’s memoir and short stories wrapped around recipes.

That’s how award-winning chef and former owner of Hobos Restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, Gretchen Hanson, describes her new book titled, “When It’s Done: The Making of A Chef.”

Gretchen Hanson says the goal of wrfiting her new book was to teach people how to cook, and heal by using their love of food is a first and best medicine.

 

The former owner of Hobos Restaurant in Rehoboth Beach explains what readers will get from the book.

“I think a big part of our culture is that we have a very confused relationship with food.  And I examine that from the time I am a very young child - about my relationship with food - which is pretty typical of women of my age. And I explore that in the dynamic of being a chef  and loving food and being around food all the time,” Hanson said.

Hanson says sometimes that relationship is “sacred” and sometimes it’s “profane.”

She believes readers will entertained, enlightened and shocked by tales of the sordid back alleyways found behind every restaurant kitchen.

Hanson will host a book release this Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. with a champagne reception and book signing on the second floor of Grotto Pizza on the Avenue in Rehoboth.

 

You can find “When It’s Done: The Making of a Chef,” on the Breaking Rules Publishing website here.

 

And for more information about Chef Gretchen Hanson subscribe to her blog and receive her free e-book The Best Twenty Recipes from Hobos Restaurant and Bar.

 

Delaware Public Media' s arts coverage is made possible, in part, by support from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Kelli Steele has over 30 years of experience covering news in Delaware, Baltimore, Winchester, Virginia, Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, California.