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Gabrielle Hamilton

Biography

Gabrielle Hamilton

Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant in New York’s East Village and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir BLOOD, BONES & BUTTER: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef. She received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Bon Appétit, Saveur, House Beautiful and Food & Wine. She has also authored the 8-week Chef column in The New York Times, and her work has been anthologized in eight volumes of Best Food Writing. She has appeared on "The Martha Stewart Show" and the Food Network, among other TV and she has won a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef NYC. She currently lives in Manhattan with her two sons.

Gabrielle Hamilton

Books by Gabrielle Hamilton

Next of Kin: A Memoir
by Gabrielle Hamilton - Memoir, Nonfiction

The youngest of five children, Gabrielle Hamilton took pride in her unsentimental, idiosyncratic family. She idolized her parents’ non-conformity. She worshipped her siblings’ mischievousness. Hers was a family with no fondness for the humdrum. But her family ties frayed in ways both seismic and mundane until eventually she was estranged from them all. In the wake of one brother’s sudden death and another’s suicide, while raising young children of her own, Hamilton was compelled to examine the sprawling, complicated root system underlying her losses. By the time she was called to care for her declining mother --- the mother she’d seen only twice in 30 years --- Hamilton had realized a certain freedom, one made possible only through a careful psychological autopsy of her family. In NEXT OF KIN, she offers a keen and compassionate portrait of the people she grew up with.

Prune
by Gabrielle Hamilton - Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

Featured in PRUNE are the recipes, approach, philosophy, evolution, and nuances that make them distinctively Prune’s. Unconventional and honest, in both tone and content, this book is a welcome expression of the cookbook as we know it.

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton - Biography, Cooking, Nonfiction

Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years. By turns epic and intimate, Gabrielle Hamilton’s story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion.