Bibliograph

Heat, [an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta-maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany], Bill Buford

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Heat, [an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta-maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany], Bill Buford

Language

eng

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Medium

talking book daisy

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Bill Buford

Sub title

[an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta-maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany]

Summary

The author, an untrained, inexperienced, and middle-aged desk jockey, learns to become a line cook in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York's three star Babbo restaurant. Provides a portrait of chef/entrepreneur Mario Batali and chef Marco Pierre White, as well as other cooks, chefs, butchers, artisans and restaurant lifers. Strong language

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