Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir

Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir

A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one womanâ€™s journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine diningâ€”and back againâ€”in search of her culinary roots
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Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York Cityâ€™s finest kitchensâ€”for chefs David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichtenâ€”she grew up in a northern Minnesota town home to the nationâ€™s largest French fry factory, the headwaters of the fast food nation, with a mother whose generous cooking dripped with tenderness, drama, and an overabundance of butter.
Â Â Â Â Inspired by her grandmotherâ€™s tales of cooking in the family farmhouse, Thielen moves north with her artist husband to a rustic, off-the-grid cabin deep in the woods. There, standing at the stove three times a day, she finds the seed of a growing food obsession that leads her to the sensory madhouse of New Yorkâ€™s top haute cuisine brigades. But, like a magnet, the foods of her youth draw her back home, where she comes face to face with her past and a curious truth: that beneath every foie gras sauce lies a rural foundation of potatoes and onions.
Â Â Â Â Amy Thielenâ€™s coming-of-age story pulses with energy, a cookâ€™s eye for intimate detail, and a dose of dry Midwestern humor.Â Give a Girl a KnifeÂ offers a fresh, vivid view into New Yorkâ€™s high-end restaurants before returning Thielen to her roots, where she realizes that the marrow running through her bones is not demi-glace but gravyâ€”thick with nostalgia and hard to resist.
Country USA
Brand Clarkson Potter
Manufacturer Clarkson Potter
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2017-05-16
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307954909

Country	USA
Brand	Clarkson Potter
Manufacturer	Clarkson Potter
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2017-05-16
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307954909

Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir

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