On Wednesday, April 9th I had the privilege to attend a seminar in which the author of the book Blood, Bones, and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton, spoke at. At first I didn't know what to expect, and honestly looking around I couldn't tell which person she was. When she was first called on stage, I realized that she was an ordinary women that really took her passion and ran with it. She talked first about her past, and within her explanations she would read excerpts from her book. They were honestly moving. She was a blunt women who described her life to the T.


From the whole seminar I got that Blood, Bones, and Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has been through in the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the easy catering companies that helped pay the rent; Hamilton’s own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law—the result of a difficult marriage that she was able to fight through and ended up paying off for her.


This seminar really gave me a new thought of life itself. I was able, for those two hours I sat in that auditorium, just listen and really get good information based off of what she believed. She believes that women one day, even starting now, are beginning to get a bigger role in the culinary kitchen, but to her she just likes to "chill man" as she would put it. I truly recommend that you read her book and/or even just read about her life, because she inspired me.


JP Morgan