Among The Thugs

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.

Among the Thugs

Politics & Social Sciences

Bill Buford

Social Sciences

ARROW (RAND)

"Heat" is the story of an amateur cook surviving - or, perhaps more accurately, trying to survive - in a professional kitchen. Until recently, Bill Buford was an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook. His meals were characterized by two incompatible qualities: their ambition and his inexperience at preparing them. Nevertheless, his lifelong regret was that he'd never worked in a professional kitchen. Then, three years ago, an opportunity presented itself. Buford was asked by the New Yorker to write a profile of Mario Batali, a Falstaffian figure of voracious appetites who ran one of New York's most successful three-star restaurants. Batali had learned his craft by years of training - first, working in London with the young Marco Pierre White; then in California during the Food Revolution; and finally in Italy, being taught how to make pasta by hand in a hillside trattoria. Buford accepted the commission, if Batali would let him work in his kitchen, as his slave. He worked his way up to being a 'line cook' and then left New York to apprentice himself under the very teachers who had taught his teacher: preparing game with Marco Pierre White, making pasta in a hillside trattoria, and finally, in a town in Northern Italy, becoming an Italian butcher. "Heat" is a marvellous hybrid: a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure, the story of Batali's amazing rise to 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.

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Vintage Books USA

Granta 21, Spring 1987: The Storyteller

OLIVER SACKS

Václav Havel

isabel-allende

Ptimo Levi

Granta Publications Ltd.

The Granta Book of the Family

Literature & Fiction

United States

Granta

Heat

Biographies & Memoirs

JONATHAN CAPE.

Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

KNOPF

Appetite by Random House

HEAT AN AMATEUR'S ADVENTURES AS KITCHEN SLAVE, LINE COOK, PASTA-MAKER, AND APPRENTICE TO A DANTE-QUOTING BUTCHER IN TUSCANY

Heat by Bill Buford (2006) Paperback

Memoirs

Alfred.A. Knopf

This is a collection of fiction, memoir, biography and reportage, focusing on the family, which has been published by Granta since 1980. The collection includes works by Peter Carey, Angela Carter, Raymond Carver, Hugh Collins, Bret Easton Ellis, Louis Erdich, Mikal Gilmore, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Jack, Blake Morrison, Mona Simpson, William Wharton, Geoffrey Wolff, Sousa Jamba, Doris Lessing, Beverly Lowry, Christian McEwen, Tod McEwen, Candia McWilliam, Leonard Michaels and Susan J. Miller.

Sociology

Granta Books

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany . (memoir &amp; Biography). Audio CD book. Read by Michael Kramer. 10 compact discs. 12 hours, 19 minutes. Unabridged edition. 2006 Books-on-Tape/CD

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Arts & Literature

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