‘Burn the Place’ Takes Readers Inside a Lauded Chef’s Fantastical Mind

Iliana Regan can recall the exact day she decided to become a chef. She was five years old and on her first midsummer chanterelle mushroom hunt in the rural Indiana woods.

“My dad said the chanterelles would smell like the earth but also sweet like apricots and spicy like peppercorns,” Regan, the Michelin-starred chef/owner of one Chicago restaurant and a bed and breakfast in Michigan, recounts in her just-released memoir, Burn the Place...