Craveable Obsessed: Journals of Food Addicted Chef - Paperback

by Jeffrey Schlissel (Author)

Craveable Obsessed placed 4th in the 2025 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (Food & Mental Health category)-a global honor celebrating the book's impact on culinary and mental wellness storytelling.Craveable Obsessed: Journals of a Food-Addicted Chef is not just a cookbook-it's a confession, a comeback, and a call to healing.Chef Jeffrey Schlissel knows food intimately-how to elevate it, how to hide behind it, and how it nearly cost him everything. As a celebrated chef and food addict in recovery, Jeffrey lays bare his journey through addiction, depression, and the kitchen walls that masked it all. This raw and unfiltered memoir peels back the layers of his culinary career to reveal the painful truth: food wasn't just fuel-it was a weapon, a crutch, and a lie.Part personal diary, part recovery narrative, and part recipe journal, Craveable Obsessed invites readers into the mind of a man who nearly gave up-and the food that helped him come back. Through intimate storytelling and mindful, whole-ingredient recipes, this book is for anyone who has ever used food to cope, to disappear, or to survive.Inside you'll find:

• Personal essays and journal entries from the brink of burnout
• Chef-driven, health-conscious recipes designed for food lovers in recovery
• Reflections on mental health in the hospitality industry
• A powerful message: it's okay not to be okay-and healing doesn't start with perfection, it starts with truth.

Whether you're a fellow chef, a silent struggler, or someone simply looking for recipes with real soul, Craveable Obsessed reminds us that we don't heal by hiding. We heal by telling the story, one plate at a time.