{"product_id":"the-healthy-italian-chef-a-memoir-of-food-work-and-well-being-9798195714826","title":"The Healthy Italian Chef: A Memoir of Food, Work, and Well-Being","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cristian Marino\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously published as The Healthy Italian Chef: My Journey to Well-Being by Cristian Marino. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Healthy Italian Chef\u003c\/b\u003e is a personal memoir about work, pressure, the body, and the slow discovery that strength is not always measured by how much we can endure.\u003cp\u003eCristian Marino spent much of his life inside professional kitchens, hotels, ships, resorts, and countries far from home. From Calabria to Stresa, from Europe to Asia and the Maldives, his career as a chef was built through movement, discipline, responsibility, and long years of adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a long time, endurance seemed like balance. As long as the body responded, as long as work continued, and as long as each new challenge could be faced, everything appeared to hold together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, in March 2020, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, an unexpected detention forced a deeper confrontation with fragility, fear, and the body's silent messages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book follows the journey before and after that fracture: the early years of training, the pressure of kitchens, the normalization of fatigue, the turning point in Bucharest, and the gradual return to a more honest relationship with food, sleep, work, and well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with reflection and clarity, \u003cb\u003eThe Healthy Italian Chef\u003c\/b\u003e is not a diet book, a wellness method, or a collection of recipes. It is the story of a chef learning that the body cannot remain only an instrument of work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47888470999191,"sku":"9798195714826","price":1022.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195714826.webp?v=1781166179","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-healthy-italian-chef-a-memoir-of-food-work-and-well-being-9798195714826","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}