I'm not much into the memoir genre, least of all food memoirs, but this book hooked me in the first chapter about the author's semiferal childhood in a crumbling Pennsylvania mill with her stage designer father and French ballerina mother. As it went on, I appreciated the author's ruminations about ...
Gabrielle Hamilton tell the story of her drift into being a chef. I don't think that she ever planned to end up as a chef, but she did. This tells part of her story, there are pieces left unsaid and nothing is examined in any great detail in the text, the bare bones are illustrated and it left me ...
Gabrielle Hamilton tell the story of her drift into being a chef. I don't think that she ever planned to end up as a chef, but she did. This tells part of her story, there are pieces left unsaid and nothing is examined in any great detail in the text, the bare bones are illustrated and it left me wi...
It's well-written, no doubt, and I liked the change from the other foodie-memoirs in that we didn't have to see the slow, painful acquisition of skills in an apprenticeship. Instead, we get vivid writing about delicious, simple food. But Hamilton strangely seems to elide key points in her personal l...
I didn't expect to identify so much with G.Ham, and when I did it was very powerful. Up until then I'd just been enjoying the way she interpreted the form of memoir - leaving out things that other memoirists would think they had to include to be completist, and sticking to the marrow of her memories...
This is not a chef's tale in the fashion we've come to expect from foodie books in recent years. It's more of an autobiography that happens to include a lot of cooking and eating. Put even more precisely, it's an exercise in self-analysis through writing, in which the reader is allowed to tag along....
I loved the parts about food and childhood and setting up her restaurant, but cringed at her bad relationships and marriage. I usually have trouble with the narcissism of memoirs and by the end, it had started to overshadow the good parts.
This was the first book read by the book club while I was in culinary school. I was really interested in getting ahold of it, but all the reviews seriously overrated it. Hamilton's writing style is the best part of her memoir. Somehow she weaves anecdotes together in a way that you don't realize she...
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