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Heat

by Bill Buford

First Published

2009

Subjects

Food
Italian Cookery
Cooking & Food
Nonfiction
Biography & Autobiography
Italian Cooking
Tuscan style
Cooking, italian
Cooks, biography
Restaurants, new york (state), new york
New York Times reviewed
Biography

Description

Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his award-winning New Yorker article, Buford gives us a chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo. He 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.--From publisher description.

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