Awards

• Short-listed for James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Professional) 2015

Overview

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.

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Reviews

Featured on the Netflix documentary series Chef's Table ""Massimo Bottura is the Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs... he takes familiar dishes and classical flavors and techniques and turns them on their heads in a way that is innovative, boundary-breaking, sky kissing, and entirely whimsical, but ultimately timeless, and most importantly, deliciously satisfying."" – Mario Batali 'A pioneer of modern Italian cooking, Bottura possesses both a deep respect for local traditions and a drive to keep blowing them up.' – Wall Street Journal 'Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is an incredible book, as rich with inspiration as Massimo’s dishes are with flavor.' – Cindy Sherman 'Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef demonstrates that food has indeed morphed into an element of high culture.' – The New York Times Book Review 'This is more than just a conventional map of how to cook; it is the best study yet of how a highly original and creative chef thinks and works.' – Economist 'The genius of Bottura lies in his ability to transcend opposites. In his inventive new book, Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef, he offers a mix of recipes and memoir, with striking photography by Carlo Benvenuto and Stefano Graziani.' – Food & Wine 'The book is a wonder – full of photos of food, setting and whimsy. Fascinating windows into the workings of one of cooking’s greatest minds.' – LA Times 'Massimo Bottura is a luminary of the culinary avant-garde.' – New Yorker 'Energetic, engrossing, and often quite funny ... Hard to put down.' – Tasting Table 'Bottura is part of a new word order of chefs, intently focused on their terroir, but global in reach.' – GQ 'A heady trip into the thoughtful mind of the three-Michelin-starred culinary genius.' – Slate 'A tribute to the 'Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs' ... Not only does it tell the story of his special journey with food it also features 50 of his amazing and inventive recipes.' – Elle Decoration (South Africa) 'Bring a bit of Italy to UK shores ... Will teach you to cook in a way that will make your old nonna proud.' – Shortlist

A pioneer of modern Italian cooking, Bottura possesses both a deep respect for local traditions and a drive to keep blowing them up. - The Wall Street Journal

Featured on the Netflix documentary series Chef's Table Massimo Bottura is the Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs... He takes familiar dishes and classical flavors and techniques and turns them on their heads in a way that is innovative, boundary-breaking, sky kissing, and entirely whimsical, but ultimately timeless, and most importantly, deliciously satisfying. -Mario Batali A pioneer of modern Italian cooking, Bottura possesses both a deep respect for local traditions and a drive to keep blowing them up -The Wall Street Journal Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is an incredible book, as rich with inspiration as Massimo's dishes are with flavor. -Cindy Sherman Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef demonstrates that food has indeed morphed into an element of high culture. -The New York Times Book Review This is more than just a conventional map of how to cook; it is the best study yet of how a highly original and creative chef thinks and works. -The Economist The genius of Bottura lies in his ability to transcend opposites. In his inventive new book, Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef, he offers a mix of recipes and memoir, with striking photography by Carlo Benvenuto and Stefano Graziani. -Food & Wine The book is a wonder - full of photos of food, setting and whimsy. Fascinating windows into the workings of one of cooking's greatest minds. -LA Times Massimo Bottura is a luminary of the culinary avant-garde. -The New Yorker Energetic, engrossing, and often quite funny... Hard to put down. -Tasting Table Bottura is part of a new word order of chefs, intently focused on their terroir, but global in reach. -GQ A heady trip into the thoughtful mind of the three-Michelin-starred culinary genius. -Slate.com A tribute to the 'Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs'... Not only does it tell the story of his special journey with food it also features 50 of his amazing and inventive recipes. -Elle Decoration (South Africa) Massimo Bottura is no ordinary chef... It's hard to imagine an English chef, a Gordon or a Jamie, intellectualising a pudding. But whether it's the Italian accent or the zeal of the delivery Bottura gets away with it. -Tony Turnbull, The Times A bona fide Italian-food revolutionary. -Easyjet Traveller The first cookbook in the world to look like a real art catalogue. The pages couldn't translate [Bottura's] world in a better way, merging art and food. -Four international online

Massimo Bottura is the Jimi Hendrix of Italian chefs. . .he takes familiar dishes and classical flavors and techniques and turns them on their heads in a way that is innovative, boundary‐breaking, sky kissing, and entirely whimsical, but ultimately timeless, and most importantly, deliciously satisfying. - Mario Batali A pioneer of modern Italian cooking, Bottura possesses both a deep respect for local traditions and a drive to keep blowing them up. - The Wall Street Journal Massimo Bottura is a luminary of the culinary avant‐garde. - The New Yorker Aheady trip into the thoughtful mind of the three‐Michelin‐starred culinary genius. - Slate.com The book is a wonder - full of photos of food, setting and whimsy. Fascinating windows into the workings of one of cooking's greatest minds. - LA Times

Author Information

Massimo Bottura is the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant that he opened in 1995 in Modena, Italy, which was ranked #1 in the World's 50 Best in 2016. Massimo was interested in cooking from a young age. In 1986, he opened his first restaurant and subsequently developed his love of food while working for Alain Ducasse and Ferran Adria. Massimo has created Refettorios, soup kitchens that use excess food from supermarkets and local suppliers to provide healthy, seasonal meals for people in need. He is the author of Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef, which was also published by Phaidon.

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