Heat

Author: Bill Buford

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  • : 33.00 NZD
  • : 9780099464433
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : 0.232
  • : July 2007
  • : 2.2 Centimeters X 13.2 Centimeters X 19.9 Centimeters
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  • : Bill Buford
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 647.95092
  • : very good
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  • : 336
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Barcode 9780099464433
9780099464433

Description

"Heat is the story of an amateur cook surviving - or, perhaps more accurately, trying to survive - in a professional kitchen. ntil recently, Bill Buford was an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook. His meals were characterized by two incompatible qualities- their ambition and his inexperience at preparing them. Nevertheless, his lifelong regret was that he'd never worked in a professional kitchen. hen, three years ago, an opportunity presented itself. Buford was asked by the New Yorker to write a profile of Mario Batali, a Falstaffian figure of voracious appetites who ran one of New York's most successful three-star restaurants. Batali had learned his craft by years of training - first, working in London with the young Marco Pierre White; then in California during the Food Revolution; and finally in Italy, being taught how to make pasta by hand in a hillside trattoria. Buford accepted the commission, if Batali would let him work in his kitchen, as his slave. He worked his way up to being a 'line cook' and then left New York to apprentice himself under the very teachers who had taught his teacher- preparing game with Marco Pierre White, making pasta in a hillside trattoria