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Out of Line

A Life of Playing with Fire

by Barbara Lynch
Christina Delaine
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Celebrated chef Barbara Lynch credits the defiant spirit of her upbringing in tough, poor "Southie," a neighborhood ruled by the notorious Whitey Bulger gang, with helping her bluff her way into her first professional cooking jobs; develop a distinct culinary style through instinct and sheer moxie; then dare to found an empire of restaurants ranging from a casual but elegant "clam shack" to Boston's epitome of modern haute cuisine.
One of seven children born to an overworked single mother, Lynch was raised in a housing project. She earned a daredevil reputation for boosting vehicles (even a city bus), petty theft, drinking and doing drugs, and narrowly escaping arrest—haunted all the while by a painful buried trauma.
Out of Line describes Lynch's remarkable process of self-invention, including her encounters with colorful characters of the food world, and vividly evokes the magic of creation in the kitchen. It is also a love letter to South Boston and its vanishing culture, governed by Irish Catholic mothers and its own code of honor. Through her story, Lynch explores how the past—both what we strive to escape from and what we remain true to—can strengthen and expand who we are.

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  • Release date

    August 31, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781541429321
      • File size: 282533 KB
      • Duration: 09:48:36

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Christina Delaine narrates this audiobook with effervescent joy. Her enthusiasm for the cooking, dining, and restaurant experiences of chef Barbara Lynch makes her narration especially satisfying. Lynch's tough background and extraordinary success are well told and read with candor, exhilaration, and empathy. Whether it's the tough times growing up as a "wicked pissah" in south Boston or her rise to stardom in the food world, Delaine captures the spirit of this bootstrap restaurateur. Her narration skills are put to good use in an autobiography crammed with emotional highs and lows, both professional and personal. This food-centric audiobook celebrates a woman whose talent and passion triumphed over her lack of conventional education and professional training. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 22, 2017
      James Beard Awardâwinning chef Lynch, the owner of seven restaurants, has discussed BDSM with Julia Child and served mobsters such as Whitey Bulger in her native South Boston. This frank, no-holds-barred book tells these stories and much more, including Lynch's hardscrabble childhood with her substance-abusing sister and distant single mother as well as her stint in rehab for alcohol abuse. Throughout the narrative Lynch is blunt and frank, sparing not even the most gruesome details about her own childhood abduction and rape. But the broad strokes of Lynch's life are as fascinating as they are unique, and this memoir also details her role in changing the abusive, misogynistic world of fine cooking and her idiosyncratic approach to queer identity and marriage. Complete with 10 pages of recipes, this book is well worth any foodie's attention.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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