Justine's review
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage)
by Bill Buford
Justine's review
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage) by Bill Buford
Justine's review
rating:
Delightful. The humor of a writer of the Times with the intelligence of a writer of the New Yorker-- with the passion of someone who loves to cook. And really cook-- the Italian (real) food that is serious in a way we'd never see it. I found this to be thoroughly entertaining.
Main takeaways
1) Mario Batali of Molto Mario is not hateable (who knew?); in fact, that television persona is just wrong.
2) I don't want to be a chef.
3) Some people have an insane capacity to eat and drink that is WAY beyond me. Vomitorium that.
Fun quote:
"The difficulty was in what you found at the bottom of the sinks-- usually a layered expression of hte restaurant's archaeology, composed of, say, goat cheese (because the tortelloni always leaked), butternut squash (becuase the lune lost a little as well), and tiny bits of everything else, including shellfish (where did they swim in from?). Also, the cooker was hot-- furnace hot. Even when the heating elemeant was turend off, it...more
Main takeaways
1) Mario Batali of Molto Mario is not hateable (who knew?); in fact, that television persona is just wrong.
2) I don't want to be a chef.
3) Some people have an insane capacity to eat and drink that is WAY beyond me. Vomitorium that.
Fun quote:
"The difficulty was in what you found at the bottom of the sinks-- usually a layered expression of hte restaurant's archaeology, composed of, say, goat cheese (because the tortelloni always leaked), butternut squash (becuase the lune lost a little as well), and tiny bits of everything else, including shellfish (where did they swim in from?). Also, the cooker was hot-- furnace hot. Even when the heating elemeant was turend off, it...more