Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire | 
And if you want to know what it's like growing up with an Irish mother.... this is it, with a side of: well aren't YOU fancy....
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And if you want to know what it's like growing up with an Irish mother.... this is it, with a side of: well aren't YOU fancy....
I'm not a foodie and I'd never heard of Barbara Lynch despite her owning 5 or 6 restaurants in my hometown. All the chefs she talks about, right over my head. But I loved that she came from humble beginnings (Southie projects), but nothing stops her. She goes out there and does things, and doesn't take crap. We should all be a bit more like that....
pickThis book does a great job of presenting how interesting Barbara Lynch's life has been and continues to be--and, importantly, how much she has achieved as a woman in a still very much male-dominated world.
That being said, despite Lynch's praise for her ghostwriter, I found the writing and editing to be lacking. The book starts to drag in the second half even though that's where you'd expect it to pick up.
Overall, three and a half stars.
I can't resist a chef memoir.
#BIRTHDAYSPACE
pickFascinating, candid & sometimes really funny restaurant and foodie memoir. Will probably get compared to Kitchen Confidential..... a comparison that won't do this book justice. You will want fresh pasta at several points while reading this
