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Celebrated chef Barbara Lynch credits the defiant nature of her upbringing in difficult, poor "Southie", a area ruled by the notorious Whitey Bulger gang, with supporting her bluff her way into her first professional cooking food jobs; create a specific culinary style through instinct and sheer moxie; then dare to found an empire of restaurants which range from a everyday but graceful "clam shack" to Boston's epitome of modern haute dishes. One of seven children blessed to a overworked single mother, Lynch grew up in a property project. She gained a daredevil reputation for boosting vehicles (even a city bus), petty theft, drinking alcohol and doing drugs, and narrowly escaping arrest - haunted all the while by a painful buried trauma. Out of Line explains Lynch's remarkable process of self-invention, including her encounters with colourful characters of the food world, and vividly evokes the magic of creation in your kitchen. It is also a love letter to South Boston and its own vanishing culture, governed by Irish Catholic mothers and its particular code of honor. Through her account, Lynch explores how the earlier - both what we strive to evade from and what we remain true to - can fortify and expand who we live.
