{"product_id":"book-aw5k","title":"Heat","description":"From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eAmong the Thugs\u003c\/b\u003e – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpanding on his James Beard Award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e article, Bill Buford gives us a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as “slave” to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali’s three-star New York restaurant, Babbo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a fast-paced, candid narrative, Buford describes three frenetic years of trials and errors, disappointments and triumphs, as he worked his way up the Babbo ladder from “kitchen bitch” to line cook … his relationship with the larger-than-life Batali, whose story he learns as their friendship grows through (and sometimes despite) kitchen encounters and after-work all-nighters … and his immersion in the arts of butchery in Northern Italy, \u003cbr\u003eof preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeat is a marvelous hybrid: a memoir of Buford’s kitchen adventure, the story of Batali’s amazing rise to culinary (and extra-culinary) fame, a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at a famous restaurant, and an illuminating exploration of why food matters. It is a book to delight in, and to savour.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340671721776,"sku":"BDaw5k","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/aw5k-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779488058","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-aw5k","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}