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BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS – by Alan Dawes

Being a chef will break you… and then build you again.

Blood, Sweat & Tears is a brutally honest look inside the real life of a chef - the burns, the pressure, the obsession, and the beauty that keeps us coming back for more.

Written by awarded private chef Alan Dawes, this book isn’t a recipe collection. It’s a survival guide. A conversation. A set of letters from one chef to the next — packed with hard truths, kitchen scars, and the kind of advice you only learn the long way.

From knife skills, fire, and fuck-ups, to how to handle burnout, toxic chefs, and the chaos of service, Alan shares the lessons that shaped his career - unfiltered and unapologetic.

Inside, you’ll find chapters like:

🔥 What Makes a Great Chef Stand Out

🔥 How to Deal with Arsehole Chefs Without Becoming One

🔥 The Cost of Perfection

🔥 Why the Pass is Sacred

🔥 This Job Will Break You - Then Build You Again

Plus “Extra Courses” - bite-sized pages of brutal kitchen wisdom:

• Do’s and Don’ts in a Fine Dining Kitchen

• Rules of the Pass

• Things That’ll Get You Kicked Off a Section

• Mental Tips for Surviving Double Shifts

It’s a book for every chef who’s ever bled on the board, cried in the cool room, or questioned why they’re still in this industry - and still showed up the next day.

Raw. Honest. Unfiltered.

Because being a chef isn’t just a job - it’s who we are.

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