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Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire | Barbara Lynch
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Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in the Kitchen in this funny, fierce, and poignant memoir by world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch, recounting her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to (…more)
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LivingReflections
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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....

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LivingReflections
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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....

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seebiscan
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This 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.

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seebiscan
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I can't resist a chef memoir.

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Bookcation74 I must get to this one! I ❤️all of Barbara Lynch's restaurants 8y
seebiscan @Bookcation74 I haven't been to any of her restaurants, but I'm sure they're amazing! She's such an interesting person. 8y
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PatienceFortitude
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Fascinating, 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

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PatienceFortitude

Getting to the cooking story! Yay! But now I really want lobster.

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PatienceFortitude

Impatiently reading about teenage misbehaving, hope for more foodie memoir soon.