Gabrielle Hamilton's simple descriptions of enjoying salty cheese and a warm salted potato in Amsterdam have the same effect as Hemingway's descriptions of Parisian beer and potato salad: They make you hungry.
Here are some lesser-known culinary terms from our Book Club pick "Blood, Bones & Butter" in the order that they appear in the book. Add any of your o...
Welcome to the second half of our discussions about the first half of "Blood, Bones and Butter." You can find the first half here, and you can click h...
Nothing in the reviews of Gabrielle Hamilton's memoir about her cooking life, "The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef," prepared me for a book ...
Unlike cloying memoirs that view the past through rose-colored glasses and an overly optimistic present, Hamilton's book is, above all else, frank and shows life as it--hard. Sometimes very hard.