Heat An Amateur Adventures as Kitchen Slave Line Cook Pasta Maker and Apprentice to a Dante Quoting Butcher in Tuscany 1st Edition by Bill Buford ISBN 0385662572 9780385662574
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Authors:Bill Buford , Tags:Autobiography; food; Kindle10K; 1 , Author sort:Buford, Bill , Ids:9780385662574 , Languages:Languages:eng , Published:Published:Jun 2007 , Publisher:Doubleday Canada , Comments:Comments:Amazon.com ReviewBill Buford’s funny and engaging bookHeatoffers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali’s kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant business? We asked Anthony Bourdain to readHeatand give us his take. We loved it. So did he. Check out his review below.–Daphne DurhamGuest Reviewer: Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel’sNo Reservations, executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreakingHeatis a remarkable work on a number of fronts–and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook–but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York’s three starSecondly, the book is a long overdue portrait of the realThirdly,Heatreveals a dead-on understanding–rare among non-chef writers–of the pleasures of “making” food; the real human cost, the real requirements and the real adrenelin-rush-inducing pleasures of cranking out hundreds of high quality meals. One is left with a truly unique appreciation of not only what is truly good about food–but as importantly, who cooks–and why. I can’t think of another book which takes such an unsparing, uncompromising and ultimately thrilling look at the quest for culinary excellence.Heatbrims with fascinating observations on cooking, incredible characters, useful discourse and argument-ending arcania. I read my copy and immediately started reading it again. It’s going right in between Orwell’s–From Publishers WeeklyBuford’s voice echoes the rhythms of his own writing style. Writing about his break from working as aNew Yorkereditor and learning firsthand about the world of food, Buford guns his reading into hyperspeed when he is jazzed about a particularly tangy anecdote, and plays with his vocal tone and pitch when mimicking others’ voices. At its base, Buford’s voice is tinged with a jovial lilt, as if he is amused by his life as a “kitchen slave” and by the outsize personalities of the people he meets along the way. Less authoritative than blissfully confused, Buford speaks the way he writes, as a well-informed but never entirely knowledgeable outsider to the world of food love. Listening to his imitation of star chef Mario Batali’s kinetic squeal, Buford ably conveys his abiding love for the teachers and companions of his brief, eventful life as a cook.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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ISBN 10: 0385662572
ISBN 13: 9780385662574
Author: Bill Buford
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
Heat An Amateur Adventures as Kitchen Slave Line Cook Pasta Maker and Apprentice to a Dante Quoting Butcher in Tuscany 1st Edition Table of contents:
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Introduction: The Heat of the Kitchen
- The Appeal of Cooking
- Starting the Journey
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Part I: Entering the Kitchen
- My First Day at Babbo
- The Chaos of a Professional Kitchen
- The Line Cook’s Life
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Part II: The Life of a Line Cook
- The Sweat and Struggles
- Cooking Under Pressure
- The Culture of Kitchen Hierarchies
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Part III: Pasta Master
- The Art of Making Pasta
- Learning from the Masters
- The Craft Behind the Dish
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Part IV: The Butcher in Tuscany
- Training with the Dante-Quoting Butcher
- Butchery Techniques and Traditions
- A Different Kind of Heat
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Part V: A Culinary Education
- Gaining Knowledge and Respect
- Developing an Appreciation for Ingredients
- Finding My Place in the Culinary World
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Part VI: Reflections on the Heat
- Life After the Kitchen
- Lessons Learned in the Heat of the Moment
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