Massimo Bottura: Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef

Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to three-michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana and the twenty-five year career of its chef, Massimo Bottura, 'the Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs'. Voted #1 in the S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2016.

Osteria Francescana is Italy's most celebrated restaurant. At Osteria Francescana, chef Massimo Bottura (as featured on Netflix's Chef's Table) takes inspiration from contemporary art to create highly innovative dishes that play with Italian culinary traditions.

Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to Bottura's twenty-five year career and the evolution of Osteria Francescana. Divided into four chapters, each one dealing with a different period, the book features 50 recipes and accompanying texts explaining Bottura's inspiration, ingredients and techniques. Illustrated with photography by Stefano Graziani and Carlo Benvenuto, Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is the first book from Bottura - the leading figure in modern Italian gastronomy.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 10/06/2014
ISBN: 9780714867144
Pages: 296
Weight: 4.23lbs
Size: 11.77h x 8.68w x 1.31d
Award: James Beard Foundation Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/20/2014
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2014 pg. 67