Characters from The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Michael Ruhlman - This person is a writer who decided to go to cooking school.

Chef Pardus - This person is the author's first cooking teacher.

Erica - This person is a 19-year-old cooking student from Philadelphia.

Eun-Jung Lee - This person is a cooking student from Korea who is having trouble learning English.

Ben Grossman - This person is a leader in the cooking class and is from New York.

Georges Auguste Escoffier - This person is an accomplished writer of cooking techniques whom the students refer to quite often for assistance.