Gabrielle Hamilton was asked to be on a panel at the Culinary Institute of America, titled "Where Are the Women?" It's the same panel hosted in virtually every industry where more than half of the top jobs are held by men.
It is with not only comfort, but the careful layering of Hamilton's identity, in mind that I chose this recipe for an egg and cheese sandwich. In it, you'll find many flavors I think(and hope) would resonate with Hamilton:
There's a great quote I read recently: 'The days are long, but the years are short.' To me, Gabrielle's Blood, Bones & Butter is the recollection of a woman who, in her youth, had to rush through both.
When we first announced that we'd be reading Gabrielle Hamilton's 'Blood, Bones and Butter' as our second HuffPost Book Club pick, we received a lot o...
After watching chickens get slaughtered in Queens and vegetables grow in several boroughs, this Manhattan video is just a montage of our wonderful dinner at Prune Restaurant one evening in September.
Rather than wrestle the holiday traffic or frantically attempt to baste a turkey, stay city-bound and forget the trouble by dining at one of these res...
It seems strange to have a dinner on that day, to come back to this great city, to share the food and stories of our trip across America on a day that carries so much weight.
Gabrielle Hamilton, chef/owner of Prune in New York City, stopped by The Interview Show at Union Hall in Brooklyn to talk about her life, restaurant and more.
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.
There's a small restaurant in New York City called Prune. It has around 30 seats, a bohemian air and a menu of urbane comfort foods, artfully prepared...