Burn the Place A Memoir

Iliana Regan, Eileen Stevens

eAudio - 2019

A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef's struggle to find her place and what happens once she doesBurn the Place is a galvanizing culinary memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family farm to opening her Michelin-starred restaurant, Elizabeth. Her story is alive with startling imagery, raw like that first bite of wild onion, and told with uncommon emotional power. It's a sure bet to be one of the most important new memoirs of 2019.Regan grew up the youngest of four headstrong girls on a small farm in Northwest Indiana. Even when she was picking raspberries as a toddler still in diapers, Regan understood to pick only the ripe fruit and leave the rest for another day. In... the family's leaf-strewn fields, the orange flutes of chanterelles seemed to beckon her, while they eluded others.Regan has always had an intense, almost otherworldly connection with food and earth. Connecting with people, however, has... more