A hilariously funny cookbook--cum--how--I--did--it memoir by the chef/restaurateur who created New York's dazzling Ápizz restaurant.
At the age of thirty--seven, John LaFemina left a lucrative career as a jeweler to become a chef. Instead of going back to school, or getting on--the--job training, he did it the hard way: he bought the restaurant and then taught himself to cook.
Today he owns two of New York's great Italian restaurants--Ápizz and Peasant--and is one of the city's most--talked--about chefs, earning rave reviews from fans and critics. In this gorgeous cookbook, he not only shares scores of recipes, but describes his life as a Canarsie boy learning about meatballs and macaroni in his mother's kitchen--and reveals how he drew on a lifetime of Italian cooking, and his own hard work and exquisite taste to create his dream restaurant from scratch.
LaFemina takes us step--by--step through the process of finding the perfect location (and...