Michael Carl Ruhlman is an American author. He has written 12 books of mostly nonfiction, the best known of which have been in collaboration with American chefs. Ruhlman grew up in Cleveland and was educated at University School, a private boys' day school in Cleveland's suburbs, and at Duke University, from which he graduated in 1985. Ruhlman worked a series of odd jobs and traveled before returning to his hometown in 1991, to work for a local magazine. While working at the magazine, Ruhlman wrote an article about his old high school and its new headmaster, which he expanded into his first... book, Boys Themselves: A Return to Single-Sex Education . For his second book, The Making of a Chef , Ruhlman enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America, taking a variety of classes but not graduating, to produce a first-person account—of the techniques, personalities, and mindsets—of culinary education at the prestigious chef's school. The success of this book produced two follow-ups, The Soul of a Chef and The Reach of a Chef .
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