restaurants Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/restaurants/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:08:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg restaurants Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/restaurants/ 32 32 38398750 Heat by Bill Buford https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/heat-bill-buford/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/heat-bill-buford/#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:24:15 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9672 I’m not sure how seriously I can take a man who is foolish enough to invite a world class chef into his home for dinner, but I decided to give Bill Buford a chance. His invitation to Mario Batali leads him to ask if he can work as an intern in the kitchen of Mario’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/heat-bill-buford/feed/ 7 9672 Sweetbitter https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/sweetbitter/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/sweetbitter/#comments Mon, 30 May 2016 21:48:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6462   “You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present.”   Tess arrives in NYC in the summer of 2006 from somewhere, but it doesn’t matter where because as far as she is concerned she didn’t exist before passing through the tollbooth onto the island of Manhattan. And […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/sweetbitter/feed/ 16 6462 BEA: It’s a Wrap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-its-a-wrap/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-its-a-wrap/#comments Fri, 20 May 2016 07:14:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6372 I promise, this is my last post about BEA and on Monday I’ll be back to book reviews—providing  I can get my brain to work again. Today I just wanted to share photos of some of the other aspects of the trip.   In case you think going to conferences is all glamour and fun, it […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/05/bea-its-a-wrap/feed/ 11 6372 The Hundred-Foot Journey https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/01/the-hundred-foot-journey/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/01/the-hundred-foot-journey/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:59:14 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=464 I am almost speechless at how much I enjoyed this book. The Hundred-Foot Journey is a beautiful, thoughtfully written story about one man’s trek from unwelcome immigrant to renowned chef in Paris. Hassam Haji starts life living above his grandfather’s restaurant in Mumbai. When they family leaves india and settles in France it becomes Hassam’s dream […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/01/the-hundred-foot-journey/feed/ 7 464 The Art of the Restaurateur https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/the-art-of-the-restaurateur/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/the-art-of-the-restaurateur/#respond Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:41:29 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=599 At age twenty-nine, Nicholas Lander became the proud owner of L’Escargot, a London restaurant that had fallen on hard times. So began his journey into a world he would come to love and a group of people he would grow to admire. Throughout the 1980s Lander built L’Escargot into a London restaurant of renown. When […]

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