Bread & Butter meshes a restaurant/chef story in the vein of Kitchen Confidential with a more traditional family drama to create a new take on the culinary drama. While not everything in this book really works I can see what the author was going for and commend her for it. Two things are clear from reading this book. One is that Michelle Wildgen is a foodie and has a real passion for the subject. Her descriptions of the food and the cooking of it are the literary version of food porn. You can almost taste the meals from her descriptions. Her ability to describe food is what I enjoyed most about the book. After reading a chapter of Bread & Butter what I really wanted to do is get into the kitchen and cooks something. The other thing that is obvious from reading this book, at least to someone who… Read more »
