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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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"I loved this book. Extremely well-written. It gives you a view into the life not only into the life busy of a well-known chef but also a woman, mother, sister, daughter, and wife with all the issues, conflicts, and life-changing decisions made and consequences that ensued. This is a woman I love to get to know and who's food I would so enjoy eating."
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Blood Bones Butter The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Gabrielle Hamilton 0884897726164 Books Reviews :
Blood Bones Butter The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Gabrielle Hamilton 0884897726164 Books Reviews
- Humble people who are afraid to take a chance usually don't run successful restaurants in New York. Humble women don't stand a chance. Talented, opinionated, self-reliant people like Gabrielle Hamilton have a chance if they have the talent to back it up, and she has it in spades.
Step by step through her unlikely life, she carries us along on her journey to top chef of Prune restaurant in NYC. Along the way we learn what it takes to be a chef and way they make such lousy spouses. Driven by their desire to excel, and the demands of their profession, they are married to the restaurant with little time or energy left over for people.
This lively account of her life shows the price she pays and whether she thinks it is worth it. Lively, honest and fascinating, it give a glimpse into the life of a top chef. - This is a gritty story, so gritty you sometimes feel as if you're biting on gravel. Gabrielle's style often veers towards stream-of-consciousness, and as she herself admits in her epilogue, she did jump around in time. Maybe this book should not get 5 stars from me, but I found it riveting reading. Not always easy; she sometimes writes with so much suppressed anger, and then her style is so "tight" that I sometimes had to reread a paragraph to get her gist.
From, at first, a superficially happy childhood, to a rudderless, loveless and seemingly parent-less teenage, with drugs, cigarettes and often no money, this woman by pure bloody-mindedness and tenacity fights her way up through menial jobs to be the chef of "Prune", and she still is one of New York's best chefs. Take note that she really is a very hard worker, who doesn't mind cleaning up the most yucky stuff -- she cannot stand disorganization and mess. Hats off to her for that.
Yet the memoir is in many ways too self-centred. She carries within her issues and old angers which the reader picks up on as the story goes on. Her husband Michele seemed to me to be a very nice man, actually, to put up for so long with this impatient woman who (she never admits this) finds it hard to love unconditionally. The (seeming) total lack of communication between her and Michele made me want to shake her and say, "For God's sake, so he's not a talker YOU talk then!" It seems her way of expressing fury towards him -- often not well understood by the reader -- is to sulk for weeks. And yet somewhere she confesses that although she screams, swears like a sailor, and throws things when angry at Michele, he has never uttered a harsh word towards her. An easy-going woman she is not!
Her one true love, apart from her children (who could well have been created by immaculate conception), is cooking. She's brilliant at that, and to keep a N Y restaurant going on her own takes true grit -- there is no other word for it.
Like another reviewer I also did not understand her dislike, almost hatred, of her mother. She says they're too similar, but that does not ring true, really. And in the end we still do not know much this mother who abandoned most of her children when she left her husband.
I'd recommend this book to any intelligent foodie -- just know it's not always a light or easy read, but it should keep you spellbound. - Gabrielle Hamilton's love of food permeates the entire book. From the beginning of her memoir as an 11 year old, she shows an appreciation of organic food before she knew what organic meant. I can feel her moods change as time goes on; her values remain the same. Her views on women, business, marriage and motherhood are fascinating. If you love food and good writing, this is the book for you.
- This is a book written by a woman for women and I wasnt expecting that when I purchased it. Hamilton does an excellent job conveying what it means to be female in her industry with this very emotional memoir.
This story is so emotional that she lost me several times because she seems to jump around from scenario to scenario and mixes memories together to the point where they arent very coherent. The moments in this book are more emotionally connected than chronologically connected – if that makes sense. Thats probably my only knock on the book. This book has plenty of indirect recipes, where the chef gives the name if the dish and briefly describes how to prepare it. I love "recipes" like that because I get to research it and interpret it on my own. There are a lot of memorable moments in the book and what Hamilton has been able to accomplish is pretty impressive considering.
If you love chef memoirs this is definitely one of the better ones and I would encourage you to check it out. - I loved this book. Extremely well-written. It gives you a view into the life not only into the life busy of a well-known chef but also a woman, mother, sister, daughter, and wife with all the issues, conflicts, and life-changing decisions made and consequences that ensued. This is a woman I love to get to know and who's food I would so enjoy eating.
