Gabrielle Hamilton

thumb|Gabrielle Hamilton Gabrielle Hamilton (born 1966) is an American chef and author, owner of the now-closed Prune restaurant in New York City and author of the memoir Blood, Bones, and Butter. Quotes I wanted to follow Joe in there. I wanted to be with the meat and the knives, and to wear the long bloody coat. "The Lamb Roast", The New Yorker, January 17, 2011. It was the first time in 20 years I'd heard a chef say 'I don't know, let me look it up.' "A Mentor Named Misty", Food & Wine, April 25, 2016. I opened a restaurant, Prune, and started cooking all of—and only—the foods I wanted to eat at home: trickless, gadgetless and pretenseless. "A Mentor Named Misty", Food & Wine, April 25, 2016. "My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?" (2020) "My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?", The New York Times, April 23, 2020. It has always been hard, but when did it get this hard? The 'waiter' became the 'server,' the 'restaurant business' became the 'hospitality industry,' what used to be the 'customer' became the 'guest,' what was once your 'personality' became your 'brand,' the small acts of kindness and the way you always used to have of sharing your talents and looking out for others became things to 'monetize.' And God, the brunch, the brunch. I started my restaurant as a place for people to talk to one another, with a very decent but affordable glass of wine and an expertly prepared plate of simply braised lamb shoulder on the table to keep the conversation flowing, and ran it as such as long as I could. If this kind of place is not relevant to society, then it—we—should become extinct. External links Gabrielle Hamilton (chef) Category:1966 births Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Chefs from the United States Category:Living people Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:University of Michigan alumni Category:LGBT people Category:People from Pennsylvania Category:Women born in the 1960s