![]() ![]() ![]() I won’t reveal anything about the arc of her life story: I like to know as little as possible about books before I read them so I’m not about to spoil this one for you, but let’s just say (and I’ve provided links below if you want to know more) that it hasn’t been the smoothest of rides.Īnd the book she has drawn from it is the rawest, most plainspoken, no-holds-barred memoir I have ever read. ![]() On the other hand, I deal with food so exclusively and so intensely all day and all week long that when I sit down to read at night or on weekends, I sort of want to read about other lives entirely.Īnd this is one of the reasons why I so enjoyed Gabrielle Hamilton‘s memoir.īlood, Bones & Butter is a food memoir in as much as the author is a food professional - she’s the chef and owner of Prune, a small and highly popular restaurant in NYC’s East Village* - but it is, in truth, a lot wider in scope than “the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef,” as the (somewhat clunky) subtitle reads. On the one hand, a book that’s entirely devoted to food and food experiences should have my name all over it. I have an ambivalent relationship to food memoirs. ![]()
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