Name: Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
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Author: Bill Buford
ISBN: 9780307455802

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Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bill Buford

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 13.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780307455802

Synopsis "Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking"

"You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford's Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France." --The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon's best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.

Bill Buford

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Bill Buford es un escritor y periodista estadounidense nacido en 1954 en Baton Rouge, Luisiana. Estudió Literatura en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, y obtuvo una beca Marshall para completar sus estudios en el King’s College, Cambridge. Fue editor fundador de la revista Granta desde 1979 hasta 1995, y desde entonces colabora con The New Yorker como editor y escritor. Su trayectoria combina el periodismo, la narrativa de no ficción y una curiosidad voraz por lo urbano, lo social y lo culinario.

Entre sus obras más conocidas está Among the Thugs (1991), un libro-testimonio en el que se interna durante años en la violencia del hooliganismo futbolístico británico; y Heat (2006), una inmersión literal en la cocina —lavando platos, cortando carne, trabajando en restaurantes— que mezcla gastronomía, cultura y reflexión personal. Su capacidad para describir mundos extremos —desde hinchadas violentas hasta cocinas frenéticas— con honestidad, detalle y pulso narrativo le ha dado un lugar destacado entre los escritores de no-ficción contemporáneos.

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