Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to three-michelin star restaurant Osteria
Francescana and the twenty-five year career of its chef Massimo Bottura 'the Jimi Hendrix of
Italian chefs'. Voted #1 in the S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2016. Osteria
Francescana is Italy's most celebrated restaurant. At Osteria Francescana chef Massimo Bottura
(as featured on Netflix's Chef's Table) takes inspiration from contemporary art to create
highly innovative dishes that play with Italian culinary traditions. Never Trust a Skinny
Italian Chef is a tribute to Bottura's twenty-five year career and the evolution of Osteria
Francescana. Divided into four chapters each one dealing with a different period the book
features 50 recipes and accompanying texts explaining Bottura's inspiration ingredients and
techniques. Illustrated with photography by Stefano Graziani and Carlo Benvenuto Never Trust a
Skinny Italian Chef is the first book from Bottura - the leading figure in modern Italian
gastronomy.
