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Subtitle: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage)
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: June 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781400034475
Subjects: Cookery; Gastronomy; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Cooking; Personal Memoirs; Cooking / General; General; Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca; Cookery, Italian; Food; Italy; Tuscan style; Tuscany
Description: Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his award-winning New Yorker article, Buford gives us a chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo. He describes three frenetic years of trials and errors, disappointments and triumphs, as he worked his way up the Babbo ladder from "kitchen bitch" to line cook, his relationship with the larger-than-life Batali, whose story he learns as their friendship grows through (and sometimes despite) kitchen encounters and after-work all-nighters, and his immersion in the arts of butchery in Northern Italy, of preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria.--From publisher description.