Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Bill Buford
This is the famous book by Bill Buford who transforms himself into a cook primarily in the notoriously difficult, cramped kitchens of New York's three star Babbo. He also makes the pilgrimmage to Tuscany to learn butchery from Mario Cecchini, providing an extremely entertaining and informative section of the book.
