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Reading & Book Signing w/"Chef Tell" author Ron Joseph Kule

PLEASE NOTE: The author has pledged in Chef Tell’s name a portion of his royalties from this book's sales to 501(3)(c) non-profit, Chefs for Humanity, founded by Iron Chef Cat Cora. CFH's mission is “ to help raise awareness and provide resources for emergency and hunger-related causes."

 

Before the heyday of the Food Network, there was Chef Tell nickname of

Friedemann Paul Erhardt, America's first TV showman chef. Big on

personality and flavor, Chef Tell was once called by Philadelphia

magazine the affably roguish Bad Boy of the Philadelphia restaurant

world. Chef Tell explores how a young German American chef became

America's biggest TV celebrity chef of his time. Most of Chef Tell's

forty million baby boomer viewers a number comparable to Julia Child's

never knew his fascinating, hardscrabble life story. Until now. This

winning biography brings us behind the line into his kitchen and into

his, at times, turbulent personal life. Tell was known as a charmer, as

he worked the audience for live television shows, but also a

quick-witted perfectionist, who demanded only the freshest ingredients

for his life of food, fame, fortune, and women. Chef Tell's life his

colleagues would agree was a managed, complicated, and mercurial affair,

which changed two industries and millions of home cooks. An absorbing

account of an extraordinary man, Chef Tell takes us through his personal

and professional highs and lows; and his glorious successes that

explain why so many loved, or hated, him then and miss him now. The day

Chef Tell died, messages of surprise and shock flooded the media,

including Chef Tell has died? Stick a fork in him, he's done. Chef Tell

would have loved that. Readers will know why and agree.

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