Heat

Hardcover

ISBN 9781400041206
1400041201 | 1-4000-4120-1 | 978-1400041206 | 978-1-4000-4120-6
Bill Buford’s funny and engaging book Heat offers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali’s kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant business? We asked Anthony Bourdain to read Heat and give us his take. We loved it. So did he. Check out his review below. –Daphne Durham Guest Reviewer: Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain is host of the Discovery Channel’s No Reservations, executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, and author of the bestselling and groundbreaking Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook, A Cook’s Tour, Bone in the Throat, and many others. His latest book, The Nasty Bits will be released on May 16, 2006. Heat is a remarkable work on a number of fronts–and for a number of reasons. First, watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook–but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure. That he chooses to do so primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York’s three star Babbo provides further sado-masochistic fun. Buford not only accurately and hilariously describes the painfully acquired techniques of the professional cook (and his own humiations), but chronicles as well the mental changes–the “kitchen awareness” and peculiar world view necessary to the kitchen dweller.