Gabrielle Hamilton at Flyleaf Books, January 25
This upcoming Wednesday, January 25th, acclaimed chef will be at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill to read from her recent best-selling memoir, . Hamilton, who in addition to being the chef/owner of Prune in New York City has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan, is the latest chef to lift the curtain on life behind the stove, although given the book reviews her’s sits firmly at the top of the heap. Anthony Bourdain has called Hamilton’s book “the best memoir by a chef ever”, and Mario Batali said he would “burn all the books I have written for pretending to be anything even close to this.”
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I was at Flyleaf earlier this week for the first meeting of the year and picked up a copy with the hopes of finishing it by next week. I’ve read the first chapter thus far and I’m already hooked. Hamilton’s writing is evocative; I can smell the lamb roast of her childhood wafting up from the pages and feel the icy cold of the stream in which her family stashes beers and sodas during their marathon summer cookouts. I’ve read many a chef memoir and I can already tell that this one is going to be a lifelong favorite.
Gabrielle Hamilton at , Wednesday, January 25th, 7-8pm
