bIf you have an appetite for culinary adventure, you'll devour the feisty and fun memoir iElle imagazine by James Beard award-winning chef, restaurateur, and iTop Chefi judge Barbara Lynch as she recounts her rise from her rough Southie childhood to culinary stardom.b pCelebrated chef Barbara Lynch--named one of iTimei magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2017--credits the defiant spirit of her upbringing in tough, poor Southie, a neighborhood ruled by the notorious Whitey Bulger gang, with helping her bluff her way into her first professional cooking jobs develop a distinct culinary style through instinct and sheer moxie then dare to found an empire of restaurants ranging from a casual but elegant clam shack to Boston's epitome of modern haute cuisine. As award-winning chef Ana Sortun raves, Her heroic story inspires us to remain true to who we are and honor our dreams with conviction. p One of seven children born to an overworked single mother, Lynch was raised in a housing proj