Top 10 books of 2011, according to Amazon's editors

Amazon's editors pick their top 10 books of 2011 so far.

4. Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton, Random House, 304 pp.

"Blood, Bones & Butter" is a chef's memoir with enough heart, soul, and grit to enchant even readers whose relationship with the kitchen is confined to frequent use of the microwave. Gabrielle Hamilton is the owner of New York's Prunes restaurant, but she is also a born writer who movingly evokes her New Jersey childhood, her uneven path to adulthood, and her unusual marriage to an Italian with an irresistible mother.

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