{"product_id":"2940172105364","title":"Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Abridged)","description":"From one of our most interesting literary figures - former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eAmong the Thugs\u003c\/b\u003e - a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpanding on his James Beard Award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e article, Bill Buford gives us a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as \"slave\" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a fast-paced, candid narrative, Buford describes three frenetic years of trials and errors, disappointments and triumphs, as he worked his way up the Babbo ladder from \"kitchen bitch\" to line cook . . . his relationship with the larger-than-life Batali, whose story he learns as their friendship grows through (and sometimes despite) kitchen encounters and after-work all-nighters . . . and his immersion in the arts of butchery in Northern Italy, \u003cbr\u003eof preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeat is a marvelous hybrid: a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure, the story of Batali's amazing rise to culinary (and extra-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151010840816,"sku":"2940172105364","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940172105364_p0.jpg?v=1763753032","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940172105364","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}