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

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

Gastronomic adventure, cultural immersion, personal transformation.

Fancy a culinary escapade through the heart of France? "Dirt" will sweep you into a whirlwind of flavors, tradition, and the rigorous passion behind French cooking. Bill Buford's narrative will make you feel the heat of the kitchen and the warmth of Lyon, all while serving up humor and a rich tale of a chef's transformation that might just inspire your next kitchen adventure.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Food & Cookbooks (2020)
  • American Library in Paris Nominee (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Bill Buford
ISBN: 9780307455802
Authors: Bill Buford
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2021-03-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Food & Drink, Travel, Cooking
Related Topics: Biography, Food, Adventure, Memoir, Cooking
Goodreads rating: 3.65
(rated by 8874 readers)

Description

"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.
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Gastronomic adventure, cultural immersion, personal transformation.

Fancy a culinary escapade through the heart of France? "Dirt" will sweep you into a whirlwind of flavors, tradition, and the rigorous passion behind French cooking. Bill Buford's narrative will make you feel the heat of the kitchen and the warmth of Lyon, all while serving up humor and a rich tale of a chef's transformation that might just inspire your next kitchen adventure.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Food & Cookbooks (2020)
  • American Library in Paris Nominee (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.