Discover the culinary memoir 'Burn the Place' by Michelin-starred chef Iliana Regan, a gripping narrative that was Longlisted for the National Book Award 2019. This remarkable book offers an intimate look at Regan's transformation from a young girl foraging on her family's farm in Northwest Indiana to becoming a celebrated chef at her restaurant, Elizabeth. In her powerful debut memoir, Iliana shares her struggles with addiction, her journey of self-discovery, and the challenges she faced in a male-dominated culinary world.

With vivid imagery and emotional depth, 'Burn the Place' reflects on Regan's unique connection to the earth and food. It captures the essence of foraging, cooking, and the complex relationship between identity and culinary artistry. This beautifully crafted book, complete with a printed dust jacket and published by Agate Publishing in 2019, is a must-have for food lovers, aspiring chefs, and memoir aficionados alike.

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781572842670
Format: With printed dust jacket
Year: 2019
Publisher: Agate Publishing


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LONGLISTED for the National Book Award 2019

Michelin-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.

Burn the Placeis 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.

Regan 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.

Regan 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