OP: Outlaw Cook (unsigned first printing)
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Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printing.
Thorne’s second book, co-written with his wife Matt Lewis Thorne, recounts his young adult years, living in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood. At its core, Outlaw Cook is a celebration of cooking as a solitary practice. He revels in liberation from expectation—no creative boundaries imposed by parents, culinary technique, anyone else’s preferences, or even recipes.
He says, “I’ve generally found life a lot more interesting learning to use my limitations than struggling to overcome them. For example, since I have little patience in getting things just right, I tend to avoid dishes that require a calculated perfection…And since I can’t abide following someone else’s directions, I rarely prepare anything that I can’t get a good mental fix on before I start.”
Our copy is a first printing. Near Fine.
Also available in paperback.
