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Heat

3.90 ( 25,257 Ratings by Goodreads)
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3.90 (25,257 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 13 July, 2006
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"Heat" is the story of an amateur cook surviving - or, perhaps more accurately, trying to survive - in a professional kitchen. Until 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. Then, 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, and finally, in a town in Northern Italy, becoming an Italian butcher. "Heat" is a marvellous hybrid: a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure, the story of Batali's amazing rise to culinary fame, a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at a famous restaurant, and an illuminating exploration of why food matters. It is a book to delight in, and to savour.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780224071840
ISBN10 022407184X
Number Of Pages 336
Item Weight 579 g
Product Dimensions 31 x 240 x 162 mm
Publisher / Reseller Jonathan Cape
Format hardback
Edition First Edition
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Praise for Among the Thugs:
An important, perhaps prophetic, book. . .both exciting and sad at the core. . . . [Buford is] a superbly talented reporter.
-- The New York Times Book Review
Brilliant. . . . One of the most unnerving books you will ever read.
-- Newsweek
Animated, witty, and so pungent you can taste the stale lager.
-- Washington Post Book World
Praise for Among the Thugs :
An important, perhaps prophetic, book. . .both exciting and sad at the core. . . . [Buford is] a superbly talented reporter.
-- The New York Times Book Review
Brilliant. . . . One of the most unnerving books you will ever read.
-- Newsweek
Animated, witty, and so pungent you can taste the stale lager.
-- Washington Post Book World

From the Hardcover edition.


Praise for Among the Thugs :
An important, perhaps prophetic, book. . .both exciting and sad at the core. . . . Buford is a superbly talented reporter.
-- The New York Times Book Review
Brilliant. . . . One of the most unnerving books you will ever read.
-- Newsweek
Animated, witty, and so pungent you can taste the stale lager.
-- Washington Post Book World

From the Hardcover edition.


A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2006
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2006
Sharing Buford's table talk is a pleasure not to be passed up. -- Michael Redhill, The Globe and Mail

Heat is a book about obsession, written by a man in the grip of one. It is fuelled by food, but food is not its only subject -- love, sex, comradeship, terror and pain are all part of the story too. -- The Telegraph
A dazzling and funny account of two magnificently mad years. -- The Guardian
[Buford] excels at vibrantly colourful descriptive writing. . . . What shines through is the story of Bill Buford falling in love with food, and his passionate journey of learning. -- Vancouver Sun
it is clear that Buford can hold his own with anyone in the foodie pedantry stakes.... Heat is a subtle, expletive-heavy, genuine account of a writer's engagement with food.... [an] ultimately nourishing book. -- Times Literary Supplement
A messy, brilliant book,

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Author's Bio

Bill Buford is a staff writer and European correspondent for the New Yorker, where he was previously the fiction editor for eight years. He was the editor-in-chief for Granta magazine for sixteen years and was also the publisher of Granta Books. He is the author of Among the Thugs. He lives in New York City.

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