She has written Blood, Bones & Butter with her whole, generous heart.'- The Miami Herald 'Magnificent. marvel at Hamilton's masterly facility with language.'- The Washington Post 'The author/chef is an original-tough, tender, gritty, dreamy. A fabulously talented writer-cook, Gabrielle Hamilton is also a contrarian one, and you never know quite what will come next.' - The Wall Street Journal 'Hamilton's writing about food is so vivid it could make you half-crazed with hunger, leaving you in front of the open fridge with a cold chicken leg in one hand and the book in the other.'- The Boston Globe 'Luminous. is as evocative writing about people and places as she is at writing about cooking.'-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 'Rhapsodic, profane, wonderful.

Join the Circle for author chats and more. Features a new essay by Gabrielle Hamilton at the back of the book Look for special features inside. By turns epic and intimate, Gabrielle Hamilton's story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality Hamilton's own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton's idyllic past and her own future family-the result of a prickly marriage that nonetheless yields lasting dividends. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald - Newsday - The Huffington Post - Financial Times - GQ - Slate - Men's Journal - Washington Examiner - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - National Post - The Toronto Star - BookPage - Bookreporter Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life.

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