This book is part memoir, and part recipe book. I appreciated the honesty of the memoir; but didn't find myself immersed in the life depicted. Also, why anyone would want to open a restaurant remains a mystery to me. Then, I appreciate the writing of the recipes, but I wasn't interested in actually making any of them.

The best part was the creation of the pizza dough. (No recipe for that, which makes sense, given the process.)

My official rating is *shrug*