Burn the Place - by Iliana Regan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Iliana Regan grew up the youngest of four headstrong girls on a small farm in Indiana. While gathering raspberries as a toddler, Regan intuitively understood to pick only the ripe fruit; orange flutes of chanterelle mushrooms beckoned her in the fields while they eluded others. Regan's intense connection to food and the earth has been with her from an early age, but connecting with people was more difficult. She grew up gay in an intolerant community, was an alcoholic before she turned twenty, and, as a woman working in an industry dominated by men, she struggled to find her place. But cooking helped her navigate the strangeness of the world around her -- making pasta with her mother, getting her first restaurant job at age fifteen, teaching herself cutting-edge cuisine while hosting an underground supper club, and working her way up to running her own kitchen. Regan cooks with instinct, memory, and an emotional connection to ingredients that can't be taught. Written from that same place of instinct and emotion, Burn the Place tells Regan's story in vivid prose and brings readers into a world that is entirely unforgettable.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>LONGLISTED for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD</b> <p/><b>A "blistering yet tender" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) memoir that chronicles one chef's journey from foraging on her family's Midwestern farm to running her own Michelin-starred restaurant and finding her place in the world.</b> <p/>Iliana Regan grew up the youngest of four headstrong girls on a small farm in Indiana. While gathering raspberries as a toddler, Regan learned to only pick the ripe fruit. In the nearby fields, the orange flutes of chanterelle mushrooms beckoned her while they eluded others. <p/>Regan's profound connection with food and the earth began in childhood, but connecting with people was more difficult. She grew up gay in an intolerant community, was an alcoholic before she turned twenty, and struggled to find her voice as a woman working in an industry dominated by men. But food helped her navigate the world around her--learning to cook in her childhood home, getting her first restaurant job at age fifteen, teaching herself cutting-edge cuisine while hosting an underground supper club, and working her way from front-of-house staff to running her own kitchen. <p/>Regan's culinary talent is based on instinct, memory, and an almost otherworldly connection to ingredients, and her writing comes from the same place. Raw, filled with startling imagery and told with uncommon emotional power, <i>Burn the Place</i> takes us from Regan's childhood farmhouse kitchen to the country's most elite restaurants in a galvanizing tale that is entirely original, and unforgettable.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Perhaps the definitive Midwest drunken-lesbian food memoir."<br> <b>--Kim Severson, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/> "A remarkable exploration of the [memoir] form... <i>Burn the Place</i> is 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."<br> <b>--<i>The New Yorker</i></b> <p/> "This raw and emotional memoir testifies to the power of persistence and grit. With vivid description, we explore Regan's almost inborn connection to food and the earth, her rise as a queer woman in a male dominated industry, and her journey to sobriety." <br> <b>--<i>Real Simple</i></b> <p/> "Regan is a compelling narrator, serving up her life story with the same ease, deftness, and creativity she seems to apply to her cooking." <br> <b>--<i>The Atlantic</i></b> <p/> "With this deeply personal work, Iliana reminds us that there is great strength in vulnerability. Her story is one of resilience, determination, and vision."<br> <b>--René Redzepi, chef and co-owner of Noma</b> <p/> "Iliana Regan's story is a memorable tale, with prose that deeply conveys the resilience and intensity she needed to find her undeniable success. <i>Burn the Place</i> will serve as inspiration for those in and outside of the kitchen."<br> <b>--Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin</b> <p/> "Iliana's perspective is honest and unprocessed and speaks true to her own experiences. <i>Burn the PLace </i>takes us through the incredible events that shaped her identity as a person and a chef. Iliana is one of the best chefs I've ever known."<br> <b>--David Chang, chef and founder of Momofuku</b> <p/> "[A] blistering yet tender story of a woman transforming Midwestern cooking, in a fresh voice all her own." <br> <b>--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <p/> "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. Burn the Place 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." <br> <b>--Jeff Gordinier, author of <i>Hungry</i></b> <p/> "The dynamic story of a dynamic life."<br> <b>--<i>Ms.</i></b> <p/> "What bold new voice is this? Iliana Regan is out to shake up the literary world in the same way she's shaken the culinary world. Unexpected, flavorful, and distinctive, Burn the Place is a debut to savor."<br> <b>--Beth Ann Fennelly, author of <i>Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs</i></b> <p/> "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." <br> <b>--Gina Frangello, author of <i>A Life in Men and Every Kind of Wanting</i></b><br>
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