{"product_id":"9781572842670","title":"Burn the Place","description":"Author: Iliana Regan\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781572842670\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Agate Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 16 Jul 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 250\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED for the National Book Award 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelin-starred chef Iliana Regan's (Elizabeth, Kitsune) culinary memoir, chronicling this intensely driven chef's upbringing in rural Northwest Indiana, her battle with addiction, and the development of her career in urban restaurants. A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef's struggle to find her place and what happens once she does.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurn the Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;nbsp;is a galvanizing memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family farm to running her Michelin-starred restaurant, Elizabeth. Her story is raw like that first bite of wild onion, alive with startling imagery, and told with uncommon emotional power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegan grew up the youngest of four headstrong girls on a small farm in Northwest Indiana. While gathering raspberries as a toddler, Regan preternaturally understood to pick just the ripe fruit and leave the rest for another day. In the family's leaf-strewn fields, the orange flutes of chanterelles beckoned her while they eluded others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegan has had this intense, almost otherworldly connection with food and the earth it comes from since her childhood, but connecting with people has always been more difficult. She was a little girl who longed to be a boy, gay in an intolerant community, an alcoholic before she turned twenty, and a woman in an industry dominated by men - she often felt she 'wasn't made for this world,' and as far as she could tell, the world tended to agree. But as she learned to cook in her childhood farmhouse, got her first restaurant job at age fifteen, taught herself cutting-edge cuisine while running a 'new gatherer' underground supper club, and worked her way from front-of-house staff to running her own kitchen, Regan found that food could help her navigate the strangeness of the world around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegan cooks with instinct, memory, and an emotional connection to her ingredients that can't be taught. Written from that same place of instinct and emotion,\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003ci\u003eBurn the Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;nbsp;tells Regan's story in raw and vivid prose and brings readers into a world - from the Indiana woods to elite Chicago kitchens - that is entirely original and unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBurn the Place\u003c\/i\u003e Is a thrilling, disquieting memoir of addiction and coming of age.' - \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/annals-of-gastronomy\/burn-the-place-is-a-thrilling-disquieting-memoir-of-addiction-and-coming-of-age\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBurn the Place \u003c\/i\u003eis a \"chef memoir\" only in the sense that the author turned out to be a chef. More rightly, it belongs on a shelf with the great memoirs of addiction, of gender ambivalence and queer coming-of-age, of the grand disillusionment that comes from revisiting, as a clear-eyed adult, the deceptive perfection of childhood.' - Helen Rosner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eread the full review \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/annals-of-gastronomy\/burn-the-place-is-a-thrilling-disquieting-memoir-of-addiction-and-coming-of-age\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'With this deeply personal work, Iliana reminds us that there is great strength in vulnerability. Her story is one of resilience, determination, and vision.' - Rene Redzepi, chef and co-owner of Noma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It turns out that Iliana Regan writes the way she cooks: with a voice that's bold and soulful, tender and tough, impossible to ignore, and utterly her own.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003ci\u003eBurn the Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;nbsp;is much more than an account of hustling in the kitchen. It's a story about identity and addiction. It's about getting creative and becoming a boss. And it's full of scenes of gothic drama that still give me goosebumps when I think of them.' - Jeff Gordinier, author of\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003ci\u003eHungry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What bold new voice is this? Iliana Regan is out to shake up the literary world in the same was she's shaken the culinary world. Unexpected, flavorful, and distinctive,\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003ci\u003eBurn the Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;nbsp;is a debut to savor.' - Beth Ann Fennelly, author of\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003ci\u003eHeating \u0026amp; Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Renowned chef Iliana Regan turns stuffy patriarchal stereotypes upside down. She is self-taught, charismatic, delightfully foul-mouthed, and utterly devoid of pretension as she parallels her ascent in the culinary world with a past strewn with AA chips, jail cell stints, and brutal family losses. This groundbreaking memoir reinvents the well-worn trope of the 'bad boy' superstar chef, presenting us instead with a palpably vulnerable, complicatedly feminist, and sexy-queer-girl genius who takes no prisoners, including herself. Regan's wild rags-to-Michelin story has appeal far beyond the 'foodie' market, particularly among those hungry for tales of unapologetic women who have made it entirely on their own terms.' - Gina Frangello, author of\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003ci\u003eA Life in Men and Every Kind of Wanting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830045921438,"sku":"ADS-9781572842670","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781572842670.jpg?v=1778559076","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781572842670","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}