Review - Heat - 6/10

Bill Buford who works for the "New Yorker" and wanted to profile Mario Batali in the magazine ended up writing a book about his experience with Mario also.

His assignment was to work for Mario at one of his restaurants and record his experiences.  He ended up working at the restaurant for several years and the book accounts his life as a cook at the different cooking stations there.  He also traveled to Europe to learn different cooking techniques and he writes about those happenings as well.

The book starts out when he first meets Mario.  You then discover that Mario is a party animal and the life of any party where ever he goes.  Mario is portrayed as a guy full of life and working like crazy by day and partying like there is no tomorrow at night.

To be frank the interesting parts of the book when the book focuses on Mario and unfortunately that is only about a third of the content.

The rest of the book talks about how he learned to cooked which to me was not all that interesting.