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About Gabrielle Hamilton
See more books from this AuthorAfter initially disdaining a career in food as one devoid of “meaning and purpose,” she finds both here.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from KirkusHer timing is perfect, her metaphor clear and her point indisputable.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from NY TimesThere are some odd gaps and puzzling emotional elisions in this memoir.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from NY TimesMs. Hamilton is a great talent, both as a chef and as a writer. Think how much more she could give if only she would learn to nourish herself first.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from NY Journal of Books...an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyHamilton’s compelling stories make great company.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from Blog Critics...this book is every bit as rich and satisfying as the marrow bones the author roasts at Prune.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from WSJ onlineBlood, Bones & Butter is the sort of hard-edged restaurant memoir we've come to expect...
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from NPR...on the evidence of this spectacular book, what Hamilton really should have been doing all these years was writing.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from NPRThe gritty, resilient Hamilton has created a nourishing smorgasbord from a life well-lived in and out of the kitchen.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In...There are wickedly funny moments, described by Ms. Hamilton with a saucy wit.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from Washington TimesMs. Hamilton is a great talent, both as a chef and as a writer.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from NY Journal of Books...Gabrielle Hamilton spends a significant amount of her debut book channeling Bourdain. But she isn’t him...
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from AV Club...the ideal culinary memoir to get us re-interested in the genre, because it’s exactly what the best of them used to be...
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In... | See more reviews from Toronto Star...hundreds of superb paragraphs written about food. Blood, Bones and Butter is a memoir with enough sustenance for a lifetime.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In...Personally, I had a bit of a problem with the final third of the book...some asides and anecdotes felt a little too personal. I almost felt like I was eavesdropping...
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......you’re getting a full, bracing three courses here, served exactly as the chef decides.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In...To say that Hamilton writes well about food is an absurd understatement; I read the book in a near-constant state of salivation...
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......a satisfying a story of family and survival by a gifted writer...
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......it's an utterly compelling self-portrait told in terms of hunger, sustenance, and nurturing.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......an engrossing memoir about her "inadvertent education" as a "reluctant chef."
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......Hamilton gives us not only a mesmerizing story of her wild, exuberant life but also something of a guide for how one might create and live one’s own.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......Hamilton’s unique ability to render her journey in a way that is relatable to anyone that has walked the bumpy path...is what makes Blood, Bones and Butter so compelling.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In...... there is passion here, and a distinct joy that brightens Hamilton’s prose when she talks about the actual cooking and feeding of friends, campers or customers.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......in the book's concluding pages, you realize that the non-culinary details have in fact told you everything about Gabrielle Hamilton's deep passion for eating, cooking, and providing for those she loves.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......her striking prose draws you in...
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In...Hamilton is a smart and accomplished writer, but she seems exhausted or simply unwilling to reveal as much as a memoir demands, nor does she quite have a handle on the solid, novel-shaped arc and structure that the form requires at its best.
Read Full Review of Blood, Bones & Butter: The In......a writer who happens to be a great chef… or a chef who happens to be a great writer.
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