New Releases by Gabrielle Hamilton

The year''s top food writing, from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. Edited by Silvia Killingsworth and renowned chef and author Gabrielle Hamilton. "A year that stopped our food world in its tracks," writes Gabrielle Hamilton in her introduction, reflecting on 2020. The stories in this edition of Best American Food Writing create a stunning portrait of a year that shook the food industry, reminding us of how important restaurants, grocery stores, shelters, and those who work in them are in our lives. From the Sikhs who fed thousands during the pandemic, to the writer who was quarantined with her Michelin-starred chef boyfriend, to the restaurants that served $200-per-person tasting menus to the wealthy as the death toll soared, this superb collection captures the underexposed ills of the industry and the unending power of food to unite us, especially when we need it most. THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2021 INCLUDES * BILL BUFORD * RUBY TANDOH * PRIYA KRISHNA * LIZA MONROY * NAVNEET ALANG * KELSEY MILLER HELEN ROSNER * LIGAYA MISHAN and others

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Gabrielle Hamilton, bestselling author of Blood, Bones & Butter, comes her eagerly anticipated cookbook debut filled with signature recipes from her celebrated New York City restaurant Prune. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON BY Time • O: The Oprah Magazine • Bon Appétit • Eater A self-trained cook turned James Beard Award–winning chef, Gabrielle Hamilton opened Prune on New York’s Lower East Side fifteen years ago to great acclaim and lines down the block, both of which continue today. A deeply personal and gracious restaurant, in both menu and philosophy, Prune uses the elements of home cooking and elevates them in unexpected ways. The result is delicious food that satisfies on many levels. Highly original in concept, execution, look, and feel, the Prune cookbook is an inspired replica of the restaurant’s kitchen binders. It is written to Gabrielle’s cooks in her distinctive voice, with as much instruction, encouragement, information, and scolding as you would find if you actually came to work at Prune as a line cook. The recipes have been tried, tasted, and tested dozens if not hundreds of times. Intended for the home cook as well as the kitchen professional, the instructions offer a range of signals for cooks—a head’s up on when you have gone too far, things to watch out for that could trip you up, suggestions on how to traverse certain uncomfortable parts of the journey to ultimately help get you to the final destination, an amazing dish. Complete with more than with more than 250 recipes and 250 color photographs, home cooks will find Prune’s most requested recipes—Grilled Head-on Shrimp with Anchovy Butter, Bread Heels and Pan Drippings Salad, Tongue and Octopus with Salsa Verde and Mimosa’d Egg, Roasted Capon on Garlic Crouton, Prune’s famous Bloody Mary (and all 10 variations). Plus, among other items, a chapter entitled “Garbage”—smart ways to repurpose foods that might have hit the garbage or stockpot in other restaurant kitchens but are turned into appetizing bites and notions at Prune. Featured here are the recipes, approach, philosophy, evolution, and nuances that make them distinctively Prune’s. Unconventional and honest, in both tone and content, this book is a welcome expression of the cookbook as we know it. Praise for Prune “Fresh, fascinating . . . entirely pleasurable . . . Since 1999, when the chef Gabrielle Hamilton put Triscuits and canned sardines on the first menu of her East Village bistro, Prune, she has nonchalantly broken countless rules of the food world. The rule that a successful restaurant must breed an empire. The rule that chefs who happen to be women should unconditionally support one another. The rule that great chefs don’t make great writers (with her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter). And now, the rule that restaurant food has to be simplified and prettied up for home cooks in order to produce a useful, irresistible cookbook. . . . [Prune] is the closest thing to the bulging loose-leaf binder, stuck in a corner of almost every restaurant kitchen, ever to be printed and bound between cloth covers. (These happen to be a beautiful deep, dark magenta.)”—The New York Times “One of the most brilliantly minimalist cookbooks in recent memory . . . at once conveys the thrill of restaurant cooking and the wisdom of the author, while making for a charged reading experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Prima di aprire uno dei ristoranti più famosi di New York, il Prune, e diventare una delle chef più famose d’America, Gabrielle Hamilton ha avuto una vita complicata, in cui non era facile trovare un senso e una strada: una vita segnata da molte cucine diverse, le cucine delle famiglie mancate, sognate, inseguite. Anzitutto, c’era la cucina di casa, nel piccolo paese agricolo in cui la sua famiglia viveva e in cui prima che i genitori si separassero si organizzavano grandi cene con molti ospiti e tanti profumi. Poi la cucina un po’ squallida dei ristoranti in cui ha fatto la cameriera, per sbarcare il lunario ed essere indipendente: cucine anonime, puzzolenti di bruciato ma prive di calore, dove incomincia l’incubo della droga. E a seguire le cucine delle famiglie che l’hanno ospitata, nei suoi viaggi all’estero: in Francia, Grecia, Turchia. La cucina della suocera, in Italia: una masseria pugliese intrisa dei sapori del Meridione, dove impara grazie al marito ad apprezzare il valore della famiglia. E, infine, conquistata a fatica, la cucina del suo Prune: il suo gioiello, la sua sfida, il suo successo. Sangue, Ossa e Burro è un libro appassionante ed energico, che racconta la storia di Gabrielle Hamilton con grande onestà, coraggio e ironia. Insieme intimo e solenne, segna il debutto di uno straordinario talento letterario.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • National Post • The Toronto Star • BookPage • Bookreporter Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; Hamilton’s own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton’s idyllic past and her own future family—the result of a prickly marriage that nonetheless yields lasting dividends. By turns epic and intimate, Gabrielle Hamilton’s story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion. Features a new essay by Gabrielle Hamilton at the back of the book Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

Quando criança, Gabrielle Hamilton, atualmente proprietária do badalado restaurante Prune, no East Village, em Nova York, viveu em fazendas e teve contato com a vida pulsante do campo, suas densas florestas, riachos e seus celeiros centenários. Neste cenário exuberante e bruto, a autora, filha caçula de uma leva de cinco irmãos, constrói as primeiras páginas de Sangue, ossos & manteiga, seu autobiográfico romance de estreia. O livro, que lança o leitor em um mundo sensorial pleno de imagens, cheiros e texturas, vai além de um registro de memórias escrito em primeira pessoa e capaz de revelar a trajetória pessoal e profissional da chef de cozinha. Gabrielle Hamilton investe na narrativa, nos detalhes e sentimentos das personagens descritos minuciosamente sem perder a leveza. Sangue, ossos & manteiga prova que ela se tornou uma pessoa bem-sucedida em ambas as áreas: a cozinha e a literatura. Seu restaurante, na prática um lugarzinho independente de trinta lugares, cujas reservas são disputadíssimas, consegue faturar anualmente dois milhões de dólares; seus textos, celebrados e publicados no The New York Times e nas revistas GQ e Bon Appetit, seduzem leigos e especialistas. No livro, ela junta seus maiores talentos para narrar sua trajetória – da infância à maturidade, passando pelas hesitações da juventude –, e fisga o leitor pelo estômago com sua prosa de dar água na boca.

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