Book Review: Jenn Agg Shows Being A Bitch Is A Good Thing!

Jen Agg’s book is so fierily fierce you need gloves to turn pages. Her book I Hear She’s A Real Bitch may be how the acclaimed, Canadian restauranteur and chef rose the ranks, but it is, inevitably, a take on how women are (mis)treated and underestimated in male dominated worlds like, the culinary arts or the hospitality world. Agg’s wit and assertiveness makes this book a must read for all those that want to know what it is and how to work with a “bitch”.

A Live Shot of How I Literally Responded To Jen Agg’s Fierceness

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In this world, when you are a woman like Agg, who presents rules and listed visions for every project like they were the 10 commandments (#howtobeawaiter), you will inevitably be quantified as a bitch, and if you think men do not gossip, you are wrong. As Agg rises through determination and dreamed ambitions, the men she crosses, and even women, try to decide between feeling taken aback by her power or trying to take it back down a few notches. Of course, even as an ambitious woman with not even penny’s worth of Jen Agg’s accolades as, I am not surprised. If I Hear She’s A Real Bitch teaches anything to readers, it is that women are not expected to have such protected, permeating desires for themselves. From money issues to drunk sex-capades, Jen Agg does NOT hold back on the actions and failures she committed to be feel pleased with herself. In a world that LITERALLY says, “Oh, aren’t you so pleased with yourself?!” as a sadistic or sarcastic turn, Agg has seemingly given the phrase an appropriate, new breath. Yes, she is pleased with herself, and she should be!

I Hear She’s A Real Bitch feels divided between Jen Agg as a young, human being growing up sexually and spiritually, and Jen Agg as an ambitious, business woman trying to dominate a world that can, at times, not even fathom women would want to rule or lead. She perfectly tussles between personal vulnerability and practically insane strength. On one hand, she wants love and affection from peers, men, and friends, but, in the other, she sees herself as simply her work. This dichotomy fascinates and is so relevant to our current times. With how excessively successful people can be, Agg rises as an inadvertent voice to the “new human being”; the one trying to bridge their business mind with their loving heart. Thus, the fact that she is woman trying to make a meld usually presented only for and by men, makes her stories stand out as must- reads for every lady that wanted to discover a path for herself in a field that did not invite feminine voice. To Buy Jen Agg’s I Hear She’s A Real Bitch on September 12 Click Here.

How I Imagine Food After Reading This Book 

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