Blood, Bones and Butter: The inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099498339 (0099498332)
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Biography Memoir,
Cooking,
Foodie,
Food Writing
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 ...
Fractured and fragmented. Though I think it was an artistic choice, I would have enjoyed it more if it had been more linear.
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...
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