“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.”
