num_pages: 304
description: 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 &amp; 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; Hamiltons own kitchen at Prune with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law who serves as the link between Hamiltons idyllic past and her own future familythe result of a prickly marriage that nonetheless yields lasting dividends. By turns epic and intimate Gabrielle Hamiltons story is told with uncommon honesty grit humor and passion.
language: English
title: Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
publisher: Random House