Here Until I'm Not: A Memoir of a Culinary Life Journey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798256055998)

This is not a story about becoming a chef.

This is a story about surviving the journey.

From a teenage dishwasher in New York City to navigating the chaos of professional kitchens, Here Until I'm Not pulls back the curtain on what life in the culinary industry really looks like behind closed doors.

Over more than three decades, C.B. Peters worked through fine dining restaurants, hotels, corporate dining accounts, cross-country moves, complicated relationships, burnout, loss, music, and the emotional realities of building a life inside an industry that rarely slows down.

Told with honesty, humor, reflection, and unfiltered detail, this memoir captures the pressure, personalities, absurdity, and humanity found both inside and outside the kitchen.

Some stories are uncomfortable. Some are unexpected.

All of them are real.