THE BOOK
Marisa’s comfort zone is deep inside the restaurant kitchen alongside its dysfunctional characters and the abundance of booze and drugs.
But in the nineteen-seventies, girls baked or made salads. The heat and machismo of the hot line was not a place for a girl with a passion for food and the drive to be the best.
From Hawaii, to Portland and New Orleans, she struggles with her own shyness and the limited expectations for the only female in the kitchen. She finally becomes Chef, successfully managing high-volume restaurants at three World’s Fairs, but something is missing.
Still searching, as a burnt-out chef, she embarks on another male-dominated career.
Mise en Place —Memoir of a Girl Chef is a story about the determination to succeed in the face of personal handicaps and cultural norms.
THE BOOK
A few words about the book
Marisa’s comfort zone is deep inside the restaurant kitchen alongside its dysfunctional characters and the abundance of booze and drugs.
But in the nineteen-seventies, girls baked or made salads. The heat and machismo of the hot line was not a place for a girl with a passion for food and the drive to be the best.
From Hawaii, to Portland and New Orleans, she struggles with her own shyness and the limited expectations for the only female in the kitchen. She finally becomes Chef, successfully managing high-volume restaurants at three World’s Fairs, but something is missing.
Still searching, as a burnt-out chef, she embarks on another male-dominated career.
Mise en Place —Memoir of a Girl Chef is a story about the determination to succeed in the face of personal handicaps and cultural norms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marisa Mangani
but sometimes life is not fair
Marisa Mangani was born and raised in Hawaii.
Finding her niche as a culinarian at a young age, she cooked her way to New Orleans and some of that city’s finest restaurants.
A pivot put Marisa in the kitchen at World Expo ’84, and from there she went on to manage high-volume international food concessions and restaurants at Expo ’86 in Vancouver and Expo ’88 in Brisbane.
She is one of the eight featured chefs in Thrillist’s “Why 8 Top Chefs Quit the Kitchen.”
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Awards
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Global Book Awards in Women’s Biography
02
Florida Writers Association’s Royal Palm Book Award
Check out some of Marisa’s
published Stories and Essays
Eclectica Magazine
Jul/Aug 2022
Eating Salad
with a Spoon
November 2021
Fall/Winter 2020
Nominated for a Pushcart 2016
Sandhill Review 2016
Nominated for Sundress Best of the Net Anthology 2016
Sleet Magazine
Spring/Summer 2016
Check out some of Marisa’s published Stories and Essays
Eclectica Magazine
Jul/Aug 2022
Eating Salad
with a Spoon
Adelaide Magazine
November 2021
Fall/Winter 2020
January 2020
November 2019
Entropy Magazine
September 2016
Nominated for a Pushcart 2016
Sandhill Review
2016
Nominated for Sundress Best of the Net Anthology 2016
Sleet Magazine
Spring/Summer 2016
PRESS
SRQ MAGAZINE
Interview in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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