Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire

Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire

Named one of Timeâ€™s 100 Most Influential People in the World

â€œIf you have an appetite for culinary adventure, youâ€™ll devour the feisty and fun memoir by James Beard award-winning chef and philanthropist Barbara Lynch.â€ â€”Elle

Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in the Kitchen in this funny, fierce, and poignant memoir by world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch, recounting her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to culinary stardom.

Celebrated chef Barbara Lynch credits the defiant spirit of her upbringing in tough, poor â€œSouthie,â€ a neighborhood ruled by the notorious Whitey Bulger gang, with helping her bluff her way into her first professional cooking jobs; develop a distinct culinary style through instinct and sheer moxie; then dare to found an empire of restaurants ranging from a casual but elegant â€œclam shackâ€ to Bostonâ€™s epitome of modern haute cuisine.

One of seven children born to an overworked single mother, Lynch was raised in a housing project. She earned a daredevil reputation for boosting vehicles (even a city bus), petty theft, drinking and doing drugs, and narrowly escaping arrestâ€”haunted all the while by a painful buried trauma.

Out of Line describes Lynchâ€™s remarkable process of self-invention, including her encounters with colorful characters of the food world, and vividly evokes the magic of creation in the kitchen. It is also a love letter to South Boston and its vanishing culture, governed by Irish Catholic mothers and its own code of honor. Through her story, Lynch explores how the pastâ€”both what we strive to escape from and what we remain true toâ€”can strengthen and expand who we are.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2017-04-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476795447

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2017-04-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476795447

Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire

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