A review by geenyas
Blood, Bones, & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton

4.0

I'm not a huge reader of memoirs, so I may not be the best judge, but I have to agree with Anthony Boudain who commented this is the "best memoir by a chef, EVER". I don't know Gabriell Hamilton, had never heard of her before I read this book, but her writing in the first chapter was so sensual, so visceral that when she writes about a party thrown by her parents you feel as if you were actually there -- or you feel as if you WISH you were there. The best memoir I've read since Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shoutin'"... what the two works share is a complete, no-holds barred, honesty about the authors' lives and feelings.