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Leonardo Lucarelli

Biography

Leonardo Lucarelli

Leonardo Lucarelli was born in 1977 to a couple who were travelling through India. He has a degree in anthropology. He occasionally interrupts his cooking activities to make long journeys by motorbike of which he publishes his reportages in various magazines. At the moment he lives and works in L’Aquila.

Leonardo Lucarelli

Books by Leonardo Lucarelli

Mincemeat: The Education of an Italian Chef
written by Leonardo Lucarelli, translated by Lorena Rossi Gori and Danielle Rossi - Cooking, Memoir, Nonfiction

The restaurant industry in Italy is as tough, cutthroat and unforgiving as anywhere else in the world --- sometimes even colluding with the shady world of organized crime. Leonardo Lucarelli is a professional chef who has been roaming Italy opening restaurants, training underpaid, sometimes hopelessly incompetent sous-chefs, courting waitresses, working long hours, riding high on drugs, and cursing a culinary passion he inherited as a teenager from his hippie father. In MINCEMEAT, Lucarelli teaches us that even among rogues and misfits, there is a moral code in the kitchen that must, above all else, always be upheld.