Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to three-Michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana in Modena and the twenty-five year career of its chef, Massimo Bottura. This book, more of a study of the chef`s practice and Italian cooking than a recipe book, explains, with humour and funny anecdotes, the role of ingredients and traditional recipes and their development into the new ‘modern’ dishes. This is the evolution of a chef and a restaurant to finding world recognition.All the recipes are at the end of the book, whilst photographs by Stefano Graziani and Carlo Benvenuto capture the work in progress of dishes, the preparation and the inspirations that precede them. Beautifully styled, they reveal what goes on beyond the kitchen doors and in the mind of Massimo Bottura, those hours of the day spent cleaning, chopping, pouring, baking and serving.Elegantly bound, this book is closer to modern art than to a recipe book. Don’t expect a traditional work; this is a play on parameters, forms, ingredients and perspectives and will show you Italian cooking in a totally new light!Are fried eggs art or just a good breakfast?