Bill Buford




Bill Buford

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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures... Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Buford
avg rating 3.81 — 3,947 ratings — published 2006
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Among the Thugs Among the Thugs
by Bill Buford
avg rating 4.00 — 964 ratings — published 1990
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Granta 48 Africa Granta 48 Africa
by Bill Buford
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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Granta 37: The Family Granta 37: The Family
by Bill Buford
avg rating 3.70 — 10 ratings — published 1991
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Granta 43: Best of Young Briti... Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2
by Bill Buford (Editor)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 1993
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Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
by Bill Buford
avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published 2007
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Granta 46: Crime Granta 46: Crime (Granta, No 46)
by Bill Buford
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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Granta 19: More Dirt Granta 19: More Dirt
by Bill Buford
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 1986
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Granta 42: Krauts! Granta 42: Krauts!
by Bill Buford (Editor)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1993
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Granta 49: Money Granta 49: Money
by Bill Buford
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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"The crowd is not us. It never is."
Bill Buford (Among the Thugs)
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"For my part, I’d come for the textbook and was glad to have it. Betta’s tortellini are now in my head and my hands. I follow her formula for the dough—an egg for every etto of flour, sneaking in an extra yolk if the mix doesn’t look wet enough. I’ve learned to roll out a sheet until I see the grain of the wood underneath. I let it dry if I’m making tagliatelle; I keep it damp if I’m making tortellini. I make a small batch, roll out a sheet, then another, the rhythm of pasta, each movement like the last one. My mind empties. I think only of the task. Is the dough too sticky? Will it tear? Does the sheet, held between my fingers, feel right? But often I wonder what Betta would think, and, like that, I’m back in that valley with its broken-combed mountain tops and the wolves at night and the ever-present feeling that the world is so much bigger than you, and my mind becomes a jumble of associations, of aunts and a round table and laughter you can’t hear anymore, and I am overcome by a feeling of loss. It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that’s handed down from one generation to another, often in conditions of adversity, that you end up thinking of the dead, that the very stuff that sustains you tastes somehow of mortality."
Bill Buford
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"Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season."
Bill Buford
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