A hilariously funny cookbook-cum-how-I-did-it memoir by the chef/restaurateur who created New York's dazzling pizz restaurant. At the age of thirty-seven, John LaFemina left a lucrative career as a jeweler to become a chef. Instead of going back to school, or getting on-the-job training, he did it the hard way: he bought the restaurant and then taught himself to cook. Today he owns two of New York's great Italian restaurants- pizz...