Heat; An Amateur's Adventres as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Buford, Bill
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400034477
- ISBN 13
- 9781400034475
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From one of our most interesting literary figures -- former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs -- a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo.In a fast-paced, candid narrative, Buford describes three frenetic years of trials and errors, disappointments and triumphs, as he worked his way up the Babbo ladder from "kitchen bitch" to line cook . . . his relationship with the larger-than-life Batali, whose story he learns as their friendship grows through (and sometimes despite) kitchen encounters and after-work all-nighters . . . and his immersion in the arts of butchery in Northern Italy, of preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria.Heat is a marvelous hybrid: a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure, the story of Batali's amazing rise to culinary (and extra-culinary) fame, a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at a famous restaurant, and an illuminating exploration of why food matters. It is a book to delight in, and to savour.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- The Book House - St. Louis (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230729-GR18
- Title
- Heat; An Amateur's Adventres as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany
- Author
- Buford, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400034477
- ISBN 13
- 9781400034475
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Nonfiction, Biography, Cooking, Italy, Travel, Humor, Food
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