Gabrielle Hamilton (chef)
Gabrielle Hamilton is an American chef and author. She is the chef/owner of Prune, a restaurant in New York City, and the author of Blood, Bones, and Butter, a memoir. Hamilton received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and received the James Beard award for best chef in New York City in 2011.
Biography
Gabrielle Hamilton was raised in New Hope, PA. At a roundtable discussion with Eric Ripert and Anthony Bourdain at the 92nd Street Y, she claimed that she learned to cook and eat well from her French mother. She has two children, Marco and Leone. She received her MFA in creative writing in 1997 from the University of Michigan.[1] In 2014, her brother Jeffrey took his own life.[2]
Critical response
Michiko Kakutani, reviewing Blood, Bones, and Butter in the New York Times in February 2011 called it "brilliantly written."[3] Anthony Bourdain described it as "simply the best memoir by a chef ever."[4]
External links
- Cooking With Words Frank Bruni, The New York Times
- A Mentor Named Misty
- Excerpt from Blood, Bones & Butter
- Hamilton, Gabrielle (17 January 2011). "The Lamb Roast". The New Yorker. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
References
- ↑ Kahn, Howie (1 March 2011). "If Cooks Could Kill". Elle. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ↑ The Marquis of Debris janiallan.com. 26 June 2014
- ↑ Kakutani, Michiko (24 February 2011). "Remembrance of Flavors Past". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ↑ Andriani, Lynn (27 September 2010). "Bourdain and Batali Drool Over Gabrielle Hamilton's Memoir". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 27 September 2011.