Blood, Bones & Butter Book Reviews

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Blood,Bones & Butter. Great book.

Blood Bones & Butter. Hope she will continue sharing her story as life goes on. Inspirational and informative.

Blood, Bones & Butter. Honest and concise. I enjoyed it completely.

A favorite for foodies/travelers. Full confession: took me 3 years to read this book. Why? Because it was the first book I bought to read on my iPhone and I realized I hate reading on my iPhone. However it was great to read it whenever I was eating or traveling alone. The book is so well written and I loved learning about Gabrielle's life and love of food and family. Also it was easy to pick up and leave off but still remain engaged in the story. I'm a very busy person w an active social life so finding time to read a book for me is truly a luxury and finally finished it during a solo trip to Europe. I generally get bored of books and don't finish them but this one I didn't want to end. If you love food, writing, and travel this book will transport your senses. Also Prune in NYC is fabulous!

Too close to home.... While this book speaks my language when it comes to food, I became depressed by the authors painful and somewhat sad life. I expected more humor, more sex, and more silliness but ended up feeling as sorry for the author as I feel for myself about being stuck in a dead end relationship that leaves me in constant hunger.

An amazing tale. What an amazing and inspirational life!!! LOVE Gabrille!!! Rest assured that the next time I'm in NYC, I will be dining at prune!!! Bravo!!!!!!!! I'm certain she deserved the James beard award!!!!

Blood bones and butter. Gabrial cooks her words and serves them up Italian style! She simmered me right into that Italian home and sliced up a perfect part of her soul and sprinkled it with her love of simple food and her longing to be loved. bravo!

Very moving. If she cooks half as well as she writes, then I must add dining at Prune to my bucket list...

Blood, Bones & Butter. To be both an excellent writer and excellent chef is perfection to me. Gabrielle Hamilton is a very complex woman but she's managed to simplify her life to the reader manifested in her daily routine. I would love to eat at Prune! I would like to know more about her and her interpersonal relationships. She left me wondering about her family and where they are now.

Makes you hungry. The first and last third of this book has you worried for the author in a way that you can't put the book down. The descriptions of food and cooking throughout the entire book have you longingly opening the refrigerator or dreaming of a rustic culinary vacation. Read this at your goal weight not when your trying to drop a few pounds.

Building a world for yourself, one meal at a time. An outstanding memoir of an exceptional cook, a cook who became a chef and restauranteur because she personally needed the restaurant she would create. The memoir is motivated by loss, in this case the particular kind of loss that comes from being among the first generation of children of divorce in the 1970s, before Oprah and school counselors and support groups and role models on television made being such a kid a little more survivable (disclosure: I'm the same age as Ms Hamilton and my parents split in the same year as hers--I know somewhat of the subject). Ms Hamilton turns to cooking, both as a means of instrumental survival, and ultimately a path to recover and rebuild her sense of home. The other motivation, proceeding from the first, is internal conflict, something heightened I think by being abandoned at a young age, having to build your own sense of meaning from scratch, and being desperate to avoid the mistakes of your parents using a toolset that comes primarily from those parents. Thus the lesbian who acquires a husband, the successful woman chef who chafes at being invited to student workshops on how to be a successful woman chef, the outsider daughter in law who cherishes her Italian mother in law's authentic cooking but can't wait to rearrange her kitchen, the newly minted MFA who impulsively opens a restaurant and the hard-charging hands-on cook/chef who drives herself to write a memoir in her non-existent spare time. The most fascinating conflicting impulse in this wonderful book, and in Ms Hamilton herself is the importance she places on food. Her early childhood experience of food through her French mother's stylish thrift and her set designer father's magical parties are the holy grail that she spends the rest of her life (thus far) trying to replace. Gabrielle writes so achingly powerfully about her cooking and her experience of food at significant moments in her life that the reader needs a quality antipasti platter and box of tissues standing by. But Ms Hamilton has a much healthier attitude than I have managed--the purpose of great food is to get people you love to the table together. It is the good works that sets the table for the grace that brings acceptance, perhaps salvation.

One of the Best I’ve Read. This is by far one of the best books I’ve ever read - certainly best food or chef -related memoir. I was reading the last pages of the book on my commute home from the restaurant one night, and I turned the page. Unknowingly, I had finished the book, and I actually cried to myself. I found myself truly choked up, not just by the beautiful writing and profoundly moving ending, but because of an overwhelming sadness that came over me; I couldn’t believe it was over. Even though I had just finished it, I already missed it. Escaping into Gabrielle’s colorful culinary world after a long hard day of my own was such a relatable release - what I’m feeling is normal. I am not alone in how I’m going through this industry. Most importantly, what I strive to become is possible, and alive and well in Chef Hamilton. Such an inspiration, beautiful writer. Fantastic, can’t-stop-turning-the-pages type of book. I highly recommend!

Wow. Ms. Hamilton is one of the most perfect examples of the pot calling the kettle black I've ever encountered. Her writing is skilled and the early parts of her life were interesting and well-told. However, her sudden lurch from being a lesbian to an affair and then marriage to a man she can't seem to stand (but by the same token wants to treat her like a precious maternal deity) is incredibly off-putting. When it was about food and family and putting together a viable restaurant, the book shone. When it was about her martyrdom and motherhood, it made me cringe. Won't be recommending this to anyone.

good. this was a great a book.

Blood, bones and butter. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for an excellent read.

Blood,Bones & Butter. I really enjoyed the book. The relationship the main character has with food is much like my own. Caution, this book will induce you to travel and have a love affair with Italian culture.

She Paints a Beautiful Picture. I loved this book. I enjoyed Hamilton on Season 4 of The Mind of a Chef on PBS. I enjoy her cooking and this book really told the story of the way she grew up and relationship with food.

Blood.bones&butter. Want to read it again,

"Girl Interrupted" meets "Under the Tuscan Sun". I read this book with equal measures of trepidation, mystification and admiration. Gabrielle Hamilton is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the kitchen as well as on the written page. I loved the fact that I relished every moment I was reading this book. Can't wait to try Prune!

Worth skipping.. A big greasy pile of nostalgia. Reads like fiction.

I love this book. If you like to cook a lot ,work hard and are not afraid to elevate the act of serving others as it should be elevated then read this book. You will love it!

Blood, Bones & Butter. Sensous, real, refreshingly shocking and honest. From her descriptive lovingly prepared roasted lamb for gloriously imaginative parties of her father's, to forced loss of childhood, to the no nonsence restaurant owner, the constant in the author's life is food. Beautiful, life sustaining, amazing food. Loved the book, highly reccommend!

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