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`Beautifully observed memoir on love, family and food... tender, funny, coming-of-age story. Savour every page.' --Psychologies Magazine
`Hamilton can be seductively honest in this whirlwind memoir...a charged account of a wild life, which succeeds in being less about the workings of a kitchen and more about one woman's journey of self-discovery through food.' --The Metro
`My favourite food book of the past few years, a thrilling and visceral personal memoir.'
--The Financial Times
`Hamilton can be seductively honest in this whirlwind memoir...a charged account of a wild life, which succeeds in being less about the workings of a kitchen and more about one woman's journey of self-discovery through food.' --The Metro
`My favourite food book of the past few years, a thrilling and visceral personal memoir.'
--The Financial Times
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A sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir ('simply the best memoir by a chef ever. Ever.' Anthony Bourdain) about the search for meaning and purpose from one of America's most recognized chefs and up-and-coming literary talents.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Incisive and evocative words that describe a life lived with all it's joys and trials. Having read most of this book out loud to my rather bemused husband, I'm about to head to the store to get a copy for mum, mum-in-law, gran, my closest friends, my son's girlfriend! An absorbing, exquisitely written story.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I just finished reading this book today. As someone very interested in food I looked forward to it very much since it had been hailed as a female version of Anthony Bourdains' Kitchen Confidential. I loved the first half of the book (the blood and bones sections); it was beautifully written and very evocative. Fascinating retelling of her childhood and her development as a cook into a chef to finally running her own restaurant. But the last section after her marriage was lack lustre. The book seemed to be two parts welded together not all that successfully. I can understand her wanting to work through the disappointement and anger at her marriage but she did go on and on and she lost my sympathy. I was with her all the way in the first half of the book but by the end she came over as rather less sympathetic. Arrogant almost in her critical views of the Italian matriarchal family and culturally imperialist. She seemed really rather too pleased with herself for having reorganised her mother-in-law's kitchen and cut down the trees blocking the view of the sea. I was finally glad when the book came to an end, which is a pity. With better guidance by her editor it could have been a more rounded and satifying book.
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What an odd book. What a wonderfully written, elegantly prosed (if that's such a word) book.
It's about food, about cooking, about starting out in life in a family that has everything, then collapses, with repercussions that ring through the decades. But, then in the end (as one other reviewer has noted, somewhat negatively), it also becomes a platform for self-analysis around the author's own marriage, and how her life is secure professionally but fragile personally.
It's a bit scattered in places - a chapter devoted to a conference about women in restaurants is worthy, but out of place. What holds it all together, however, is the writing style, which has a wonderful cadence, and which reveals the passion of the author for her profession.
I really enjoyed it. I would be interested if she turned her hand to another book, one slightly more focused.
Her restaurant is great as well. Do go there if you get the chance.
It's about food, about cooking, about starting out in life in a family that has everything, then collapses, with repercussions that ring through the decades. But, then in the end (as one other reviewer has noted, somewhat negatively), it also becomes a platform for self-analysis around the author's own marriage, and how her life is secure professionally but fragile personally.
It's a bit scattered in places - a chapter devoted to a conference about women in restaurants is worthy, but out of place. What holds it all together, however, is the writing style, which has a wonderful cadence, and which reveals the passion of the author for her profession.
I really enjoyed it. I would be interested if she turned her hand to another book, one slightly more focused.
Her restaurant is great as well. Do go there if you get the chance.
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Blood, Bones and Butter
Just the best book, I have read for a long, long while. The honest writing of a genius. I can't wait for the next chapter.
Published 1 month ago by Monkey
A satisfying portion of food writing
This is a book that really satisfies on both the food and the writing.
The food part is covered by the engrossing tale of Gabrielle Hamilton's journey to becoming a chef,... Read more
The food part is covered by the engrossing tale of Gabrielle Hamilton's journey to becoming a chef,... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Louise M
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