Dimi si che besognio tagliare piu

"Tell me if I need to cut more."

Gabrielle Hamilton's book "Blood, Bones, and Butter" is about being a real person, a complex person, who is also a fanatical chef. Hamilton thinks that being a chef is not about the Food Network and being famous. It is about cooking simply and with perfection. This book is a multicourse amazing meal of human existence told by a pro.

On looking for food in the middle of Brooklyn at 4PM with 2 screaming kids in the car (p.260)

"I would rather starve and kill my children--Medea-like--than eat the truffle oil omelette with chorizo "foam" and poquillo peppers at Soleil or Blue Bird or whatever those restaurants are called on that stretch." Then she stops at a pork store, a little further on, and her blood sugar rises just by looking at her mortadella sandwich piled high with meat and on good bread.

"I will read this book to my children and then burn all the books I have written for pretending to be anything even close to this." Mario Batali.

If you like food, passion for life, writing or just enjoying yourself, read this book.