Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

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Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; Hamilton’s own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton’s idyllic past and her own future family–the result of a prickly marriage that nonetheless yields lasting dividends. By turns epic and intimate, Gabrielle Hamilton’s story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion.

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Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Gabrielle Hamilton
Published: 01/24/2012
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780812980882
Large Print
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.20″ W

Award: 2012 James Beard Foundation Book Awards Winner – Writing on Food

About the Author
Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant in New York’s East Village. She received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Bon Appétit, Saveur, and Food & Wine. Hamilton has also authored the 8-week Chef Column in The New York Times, and her work has been anthologized in six volumes of Best Food Writing. She has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and the Food Network, among other television. She lives in Manhattan with her two sons.