Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to Italy's leading figure in modern Italian gastronomy and his three-star award-winning Michelin restaurant - Osteria Francescana. The book is divided into four chapters, each one dealing with different periods of Massimo Bottuera's twenty-five-year career and the development of Osteria Francescana. Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef contains 50 recipes with accompanying texts that explain Bottuera's techniques, inspiration and ingredients - illustrated with photographs by Stefano Graziani and Carlo Benvenuto.