Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812980883 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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I was, frankly, devastated. It will be an enduring classic. Each plate of food--like the menu at Prune--is the end result of a long and sometimes very difficult struggle.Read this book and prepare to clean your system of all that's come before. It was of course brilliant. Almost as quickly, it became apparent that this chef could write.Short pieces appeared here and there over the years and they were sharp, funny, incisive, unsparing of both author and subjects--straight to the point and pretense-free, like Hamilton herself. I knew that her restaurant, Prune, was ground-breaking, that she seemed to have come out of nowhere, instead of being a pro
"My second was that I was really sad when Ms" according to Shanin Cressy. My first thought when I finished this book was that the author does indeed have the narcissistic personality required to succeed in this business. My second was that I was really sad when Ms. Hamilton finally succeeded in forcing herself onto and into another persons kitchen, the room where the soul lives sometimes, and insisting her was way better than old world experience. Snarky, thorny, prick. Biggest disapointment of 2011 I was so completely excited about reading this book! I purchased it on my kindle immediately after seeing a piece about it in Bon Appetit. What a let down. This woman is a whiny, pompous, arrogant ass. She admits to marrying her husband just to get him citizenship, but then is so hurt and surprised that it doesn't work out? She says that women who let their kids cry are heartless and cruel, but a. Had to stop halfway through. C.Z.S. Had this book ended in the middle, it would have been a good, light read. Hamilton is a skilled creative writer and the first part of her book was interesting. In it, she admits to a troubled past that included grand larceny, auto theft and drug use. She did not express remorse or any desire to make restitution, but I took this as the starkly candid confession of someone who had grown up and wise
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Miami Herald • Newsday• The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • National Post • The Toronto Star • BookPage • BookreporterBefore Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete