tuscany

"In 1944, a wounded British bomber pilot parachuted into German-occupied Tuscany and found refuge in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later his estranged daughter finds a letter addressed to Sofia and embarks on a journey to Tuscany to discover his secrets and a past some would prefer be left undisturbed"--Provided by publisher.

The author provides an account of his experiences training to be a chef in the kitchen of Mario Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo, where he worked himself up from kitchen slave to cook, while at the same time developing relationships with Batali and other kitchen colleagues, and tells of his further adventures as a butcher's apprentice in Italy.