I’m not High-maintenance (as long as everything’s perfect): A Chef’s Diary- 30 Years of Cooking, Kitchens, and Chaos - Softcover

Gladstone, Matthew H.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218841645

Publisher: Matthew Gladstone, 2025

Synopsis

I’ve been private chef to Katherine Jackson and her grandchildren in the years after Michael’s death. Personal chef to Kobe Bryant at the height of his career. Caterer to rock legend Joe Walsh and celebrated musician Mark O’Connor. Countless other celebrities, billionaires, and captains of industry fill these pages too. You’ll recognize them by their initials. Their lawyers prefer it that way.
This isn’t a cookbook. It’s a confession.

Thirty years behind the kitchen door of the ultra-wealthy — from celebrity households in Los Angeles to billionaire estates on both coasts. From kitchens with too many egos to dining rooms where the guests don’t actually eat. From whispered chaos to perfectly set tables hiding perfectly dysfunctional families.
I’m Not High-Maintenance is an 85-page celebrity memoir and culinary tell-all for readers who’ve ever wondered what really happens inside the private world of the famous and powerful. Funny, profane, occasionally heartbreaking, and completely unfiltered.
A few clients thought “private chef” meant personal therapist. They weren’t wrong.

For fans of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, below-stairs memoirs, and anyone who works for difficult people and lives to laugh about it.
Thirty years. A thousand kitchens. Still standing. Still laughing. Still not sugarcoating a damn thing

Edition details

• Publisher: Matthew Gladstone
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218841645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82