Heat : an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany / Bill Buford.
Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his award-winning New Yorker article, Buford gives us a chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo. He 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, of preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 1400041201
- ISBN: 9781400041206
- Physical Description: 318 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
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- Subject:
- Cooking, Italian > Tuscan style.
Food > Italy > Tuscany.
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- 10 of 13 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | 641.59455 B (Text) | 39493105540639 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | NFIC 641.594 BUF (Text) | 31111002259612 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | 641.594 BUF (Text) | 22281500058966 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | 641.594 B (Text) | 0112514504292 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/17/2026 |
| Louisburg - Main Branch | 641.59455/Buford (Text) | 72350000047798 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Madison Main Library | BIO BUFORD BUF (Text) | 30229100478006 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| North Asheville Library | 641.59455 BUF (Text) | 0020506919990 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/19/2026 |
| Pack Memorial Library | 641.59455 BUF (Text) | 0020506657848 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Pinebluff Public Library | 641.59455 B (Text) | 48198000591475 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Spruce Pine Public Library | NFIC 641.592 BUF (Text) | 34444002204883 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his award-winning New Yorker article, Buford gives us a chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo. He 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, of preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria.--From publisher description.
