Sarah's review
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Buford
Sarah's review
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
Sarah's review
rating:
recommended for: foodies, anyone who enjoys looking at life from a different angle
What I liked about this book was that it gave me an insight into a world that I know very little about. Although I come from a foody family and try to keep up on culinary issues, I knwo very little about the inner workings of a restaurant or about the psychological/learning process of the upcoming chef. I never realized before how driven these people are and how similar their experience is to artists.
What troubled me about this book was how narrow the author's experience was. This book is about a man who meets Mario Batali and goes to work in his kitchen. The experience sends him on a journey to discover things about cooking that invlolve spending considerable time in Europe, working for free in order to learn and embarking on a self education experience that only people with financial stability can partake in. What about young people from working class or poor families who have the same passions?
One thing I truly enjoyed about this book was that at one point, the author is...more
What troubled me about this book was how narrow the author's experience was. This book is about a man who meets Mario Batali and goes to work in his kitchen. The experience sends him on a journey to discover things about cooking that invlolve spending considerable time in Europe, working for free in order to learn and embarking on a self education experience that only people with financial stability can partake in. What about young people from working class or poor families who have the same passions?
One thing I truly enjoyed about this book was that at one point, the author is...more
