Craveable Obsessed

<h2>📣 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.</h2><blockquote><strong style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Craveable Obsessed: Journals of a Food-Addicted Chef</strong><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)> is not just a cookbook-it's a confession a comeback and a call to healing.</span></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>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.</span></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Part personal diary part recovery narrative and part recipe journal </span><em style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Craveable Obsessed</em><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)> 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.</span></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Inside you'll find:</span></blockquote><p></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Personal essays and journal entries from the brink of burnout</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Chef-driven health-conscious recipes designed for food lovers in recovery</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Reflections on mental health in the hospitality industry</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>A powerful message: </span><em style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>it's okay not to be okay-and healing doesn't start with perfection it starts with truth.</em></li></ul><p></p><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Whether you're a fellow chef a silent struggler or someone simply looking for recipes with real soul </span><em style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)>Craveable Obsessed</em><span style=color: rgba(14 14 14 1)> reminds us that we don't heal by hiding. We heal by telling the story one plate at a time.</span></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>