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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Bill never have the chance to work with Marco Pierre White?

2. Who did Batali study under in Italy?

3. Why did Bill have trouble with the stuffed fish on the grill?

4. Who ran the restaurant Bill ate at in Chapter 10?

5. What did Batali become when he accepted his first kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Bill visit in Chapter 11?

2. What did Batali need to learn?

3. What made Bill feel like a part of the kitchen staff?

4. What did Bill become in Chapter 1, and what did it teach Bill?

5. Who was Jonathan Lynne according to Chapter 13?

6. What did Bill realize once he started to work at Babbo's?

7. What job did Batali turn down and why?

8. Where did Batali move in California, and what did he do?

9. What station did Bill want to work in Chapter 12?

10. What did the workers at Babbo's always need to assume?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think that Italian restaurants would be wise to use "slaves" to fill positions in their kitchens? What other methods could Italian restaurants use to teach their craft?

Essay Topic 2

Bill read a lot of cook books, some several hundred years old and also was taught family recipes that were transferred verbally. Do you think written recipes prevent cooking for evolving or do you think written recipes are worth the trade by promulgating cooking to the masses?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the stations which Buford worked at and discuss his experience on the station.

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