14 great books for foodies, recommended by the James Beard Foundation

Dive into summer with these 14 delectable culinary reads.  

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

Bill Buford recounts his exhilarating and adrenaline-inducing experiences working in the kitchen of Mario Batali, star chef and owner of Babbo restaurant in New York, and as a butcher's assistant in Tuscany. Buford, who was fiction editor at The New Yorker for eight years, writes of the trials of starting at the bottom of the totem pole, the competition of the kitchen, and his love for Italian cuisine. 

The Monitor reviewed "Heat" in 2006.

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