Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Bill Buford

318 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction memoir adventurous fast-paced
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The book that helped define a genre: Heat is a beloved culinary classic, an adventure in the kitchen and into Italian cuisine, by Bill Buford, author of Dirt. Bill Buford was a highly acclaimed writer and editor at the New Yorker when he decided t...

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Moods

informative 92%
adventurous 61%
funny 57%
reflective 42%
inspiring 38%
lighthearted 30%
tense 11%
hopeful 7%
emotional 3%

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fast 25%
slow 25%

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