Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in T Summary
Bill Buford

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in T Summary

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany is a funny memoir by The New Yorker writer Bill Buford. In this book, Bill describes his experiences working both in the kitchen of famous New York restaurant Babbo and as an apprentice butcher in Tuscany. Bill suffers burns, cuts, and humiliation in his attempts to learn to cook authentic Italian food, only...

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