GIVE A GIRL A KNIFE :
Thielen, Amy
GIVE A GIRL A KNIFE : a memoir / Amy Thielen. - First edition. - New York Clarkson Potter 2017/01/01 - 311
Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City’s finest kitchens—for chefs David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten—she grew up in a northern Minnesota town home to the nation’s largest French fry factory, the headwaters of the fast food nation, with a mother whose generous cooking dripped with tenderness, drama, and an overabundance of butter.
Inspired by her grandmother’s tales of cooking in the family farmhouse, Thielen moves north with her artist husband to a rustic, off-the-grid cabin deep in the woods. There, standing at the stove three times a day, she finds the seed of a growing food obsession that leads her to the sensory madhouse of New York’s top haute cuisine brigades. But, like a magnet, the foods of her youth draw her back home, where she comes face to face with her past and a curious truth: that beneath every foie gras sauce lies a rural foundation of potatoes and onions.
Amy Thielen’s coming-of-age story pulses with energy, a cook’s eye for intimate detail, and a dose of dry Midwestern humor. Give a Girl a Knife offers a fresh, vivid view into New York’s high-end restaurants before returning Thielen to her roots, where she realizes that the marrow running through her bones is not demi-glace but gravy—thick with nostalgia and hard to resist.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue
1.My Kitchen Affliction
2.Sugar and Color
3.Home Cooking
4.Meat Versus Vegetables
5.Herring Dares and Chicken Turtles
6.Twenty-Five Pies
7.The Sweet smell of Home Fries
8.Give a Girl a Knife
9.The Perpetual Popcorn Pot
10.Old Five-and-Dimers
11.Are We going to Bake This Bread in My Lifetime ?
12.The Old Time of My Youth
13.If you Don't Look You Don't see
14.Circus of the Ridiculous
15.Good Neighbors
16.Chef Salad. No Eggs
19.Pounds and Pennies
18.Morbid Sugar
19.Stalking the Beast Called Dinner
20.Primary Sources
"A beautifully written memoir that follows one woman from her childhood in a dysfunctional Midwestern family to becoming a chef in New York City and finally her triumphant return home to reclaim and redeem Midwestern cooking. Amy Thielen, author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook The New Midwestern Table, traces her journey from Park Rapids, Minnesota, to cooking professionally under some of New York City's finest chefs--including David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten--and then back home again. A love of food and an overwhelming desire to get the hell out of small-town America drive Thielen to New York to seek out its intense culinary world, which she embraces enthusiastically, while her boyfriend finds success in its fickle art world. After years of living in the city, with frequent trips back home in the summertime, the couple eventually chooses life deep in the woods in a cabin Thielen's husband built by hand. There Aaron can practice his craft while Amy takes the skills she learned cooking professionally and turns them to undoing years of processed foods to uncover true Midwestern cooking, which begins simply with humble workhorse ingredients such as potatoes and onions. Give a Girl a Knife offers a fresh look into New York's fine dining scene while also acknowledging a universal nostalgia for home--and a yearning to remake that home so it's even better than you remember."--
9780307954909 (hard cover)
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
2016044399
Thielen, Amy.
Biography--Memoir
Cooks
Cooking, American--New York (State)--New York--Biography.--Midwestern style.
641.5092 / THI/GI
GIVE A GIRL A KNIFE : a memoir / Amy Thielen. - First edition. - New York Clarkson Potter 2017/01/01 - 311
Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City’s finest kitchens—for chefs David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten—she grew up in a northern Minnesota town home to the nation’s largest French fry factory, the headwaters of the fast food nation, with a mother whose generous cooking dripped with tenderness, drama, and an overabundance of butter.
Inspired by her grandmother’s tales of cooking in the family farmhouse, Thielen moves north with her artist husband to a rustic, off-the-grid cabin deep in the woods. There, standing at the stove three times a day, she finds the seed of a growing food obsession that leads her to the sensory madhouse of New York’s top haute cuisine brigades. But, like a magnet, the foods of her youth draw her back home, where she comes face to face with her past and a curious truth: that beneath every foie gras sauce lies a rural foundation of potatoes and onions.
Amy Thielen’s coming-of-age story pulses with energy, a cook’s eye for intimate detail, and a dose of dry Midwestern humor. Give a Girl a Knife offers a fresh, vivid view into New York’s high-end restaurants before returning Thielen to her roots, where she realizes that the marrow running through her bones is not demi-glace but gravy—thick with nostalgia and hard to resist.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue
1.My Kitchen Affliction
2.Sugar and Color
3.Home Cooking
4.Meat Versus Vegetables
5.Herring Dares and Chicken Turtles
6.Twenty-Five Pies
7.The Sweet smell of Home Fries
8.Give a Girl a Knife
9.The Perpetual Popcorn Pot
10.Old Five-and-Dimers
11.Are We going to Bake This Bread in My Lifetime ?
12.The Old Time of My Youth
13.If you Don't Look You Don't see
14.Circus of the Ridiculous
15.Good Neighbors
16.Chef Salad. No Eggs
19.Pounds and Pennies
18.Morbid Sugar
19.Stalking the Beast Called Dinner
20.Primary Sources
"A beautifully written memoir that follows one woman from her childhood in a dysfunctional Midwestern family to becoming a chef in New York City and finally her triumphant return home to reclaim and redeem Midwestern cooking. Amy Thielen, author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook The New Midwestern Table, traces her journey from Park Rapids, Minnesota, to cooking professionally under some of New York City's finest chefs--including David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten--and then back home again. A love of food and an overwhelming desire to get the hell out of small-town America drive Thielen to New York to seek out its intense culinary world, which she embraces enthusiastically, while her boyfriend finds success in its fickle art world. After years of living in the city, with frequent trips back home in the summertime, the couple eventually chooses life deep in the woods in a cabin Thielen's husband built by hand. There Aaron can practice his craft while Amy takes the skills she learned cooking professionally and turns them to undoing years of processed foods to uncover true Midwestern cooking, which begins simply with humble workhorse ingredients such as potatoes and onions. Give a Girl a Knife offers a fresh look into New York's fine dining scene while also acknowledging a universal nostalgia for home--and a yearning to remake that home so it's even better than you remember."--
9780307954909 (hard cover)
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
2016044399
Thielen, Amy.
Biography--Memoir
Cooks
Cooking, American--New York (State)--New York--Biography.--Midwestern style.
641.5092 / THI/GI