With a flair for describing memories and sentiments through her taste buds (in Hamilton’s world, an emotion is like root beer: “frigid and caught… in the back of my throat”), Hamilton holds her readers’ rapt attention as she leads them, meal by delicious meal, through her childhood, two decades in the catering business, a yearlong backpacking trip (during which Hamilton experiences the particular thrill of being “picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger”), and the opening of her popular restaurant, Prune. So what was the essence of that knowledge? After years of serving hungry patrons, Hamilton understood that “when you’re hungry, there’s nothing better than eating the food you want, to have appetite.” Likewise, to write a bestselling memoir, Hamilton simply had to ask herself what her readers would want.īlood, Bones, and Butter, the result of Hamilton’s efforts to carry over her talent for satisfying a restaurant full of hungry people, is a memoir that hits the spot.
I brought everything I knew about being a chef, cooking, and the service industry to the project of writing a book.” Though she would have liked to have attributed the holdup to the fact that, while writing her memoir, she was also raising two young children and running her East Village restaurant Prune, “The truth is,” Hamilton explained, “I had a paralyzing fear that I’m a piece of shit, this is a piece of shit, I’m boring, and this is boring.” Paradoxically, to overcome that fear, said Hamilton, “I stopped making the memoir about my goddamn self. Gabrielle Hamilton, New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, admits she hit a snag at some point in her writing process. “If you just tell the damn story from the beginning to the middle to the end, and you are authoritative about your subject-you know what it looks like, smells like, you know who, what, when, why–everything else will take care of itself.” Make your own Six-Word tee or choose among our favorites. Our witty, wordy, fast, fun game for of all ages.Ī new six-worder each day-and spot to write your own.
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