Featured on the Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table Elemental fundamental and delicious”
is how Anthony Bourdain describes the trailblazing live-fire cooking of Francis Mallmann. The
New York Times called Mallmann’s first book Seven Fires captivating” and inspiring.” And now
in Mallmann on Fire the passionate master of the Argentine grill takes us grilling in magical
places—in winter’s snow on mountaintops on the beach on the crowded streets of Manhattan on
a deserted island in Patagonia in Paris Brooklyn Bolinas Brazil—each locale inspiring new
discoveries as revealed in 100 recipes for meals both intimate and outsized. We encounter legs
of lamb and chicken hung from strings coal-roasted delicata squash roasted herbs a
parrillada of many fish and all sorts of griddled and charred meats vegetables and fruits
plus rustic desserts cooked on the chapa and baked in wood-fired ovens. At every stop along the
way there is something delicious to eat and a lesson to be learned about slowing down and
enjoying the process not just the result.
