Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099464433 (0099464438)
Publish date: July 5th 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 315
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Cooking,
Foodie,
Culinary,
Food Writing
I wanted to like this book but eventually I had to stop wasting time on it and move on. The threads of the narrative were not woven together in any way that made sense. There was a lot of skipping around during the timeframe of the novel with no explanation for the sequence of things. The author ...
Read this via audio-book. The mispronunciations and over-enunciations of the reader drove me a bit nuts, which isn't Buford's fault. But Buford is to blame for how bland and uninformative this book is. Every second felt like an hour, and in the end, I just couldn't slog through any more of it.
This book was recommended to me by a friend who knows me to be a bit of a foodie and thought I would enjoy it. For the most part I did enjoy it a lot, the author has a whit about him that I rather enjoyed. That being said I found myself growing a bit bored about half way through as the funny stories...
Unabridged audio. DH and I listened to this in the car and at one point were laughing so hard we had to pull over. Nicely done memoir about Buford's stint working at Babbo in New York and how his life changes and he becomes obsessed with food and cooking- so much so that he goes to Italy to learn fr...
Bill Buford loves to cook. He has a crazy idea: Why not offer to work for free in a restaurant kitchen and learn how professionals cook. Buford puts his plan into action and before he knows it, he is working in the kitchen of one of New York's best restaurants. Okay, he's chopping carrots, but he's ...
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