David Chang is the award-winning chef behind Momofuku Noodle Bar, Netflix's Ugly Delicious, Lucky Peach journal, and a number of other successful and failed culinary endeavors. He tells about each of them, including the failures. Sometimes especially the failures. He is a first-generation Korean American, a former competitive golfer, a religions major, a bro-chef who has evolved in self-awareness, outlook, and empathy — while retaining his signature eff-you attitude. He struggles with depression, rage, and other mental health issues. He's a new dad, and he's trying to swear less. He's a storyteller-writer. And he can't decided if this is a business manual or a memoir or a culinary guide or a philosophy of food book or a discussion of mental health or an examination of generational, ethnic, and gender bias and influences. He brings his whole, evolving, honest self to this story, and it's definitely worth listening to.

"The mental and physical toll of working in restaurants is corrosive. It will take generations to undo the harm and build an industry that is equitable for people of all genders, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and beliefs. We need to be responsible for one another."

Content notes: suicidal thoughts, suicide of a friend/employee, substance use and abuse, addiction, depression, strong language, anger issues, workaholism, misogyny, racism