If you can’t stand the heat…
…then get out of the kitchen. It’s a phrase intended to describe pressure, more specifically one’s inability to handle it. A fellow writer recommended a narrative book by journalist turned cook, Bill Buford entitled Heat: an Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. If you love food and want to learn more about how your three star meal is prepared then you’ll enjoy every minute of this read. […]