Heat
by Bill Buford
A New Yorker editor quits to work the line at Babbo, then apprentices with a Tuscan butcher. A midlife adventure in deliberate learning and humiliation.
Read it if…
you want to see what it costs to become good at something new at 40.
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Skip it if…
you want recipes.
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Three things you will actually use
- Apprentice yourself.
- Humiliation is tuition.
- Go to the source.
Do this first
Read the chapter on his first night on the line.
Our verdict
A midlife apprenticeship.
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