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

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

I didn't expect this book to start in Batali's kitchen at Babo, which post-2018 doesn't sit great but at the same time you really see where he came from. Chefs-behaving-badly is kinda the theme. I loved Buford's writing in Among the Thugs and he applies similar skills and storytelling to this kitchen memoir. It's still good writing and enough absurdity and folly mixed with fact and food history. I ended up overall enjoying it and will probably read his follow up.