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Bill Buford


Born
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, The United States
October 06, 1954

Genre
Nonfiction


William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".
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Average rating: 3.91 · 53,170 ratings · 4,889 reviews · 97 distinct works • Similar authors
Heat: An Amateur's Adventur...
3.90 avg rating — 25,260 ratings — published 2006 — 61 editions
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Among the Thugs
4.12 avg rating — 10,758 ratings — published 1990 — 46 editions
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Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as...
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Granta 43: Best of Young Br...
3.78 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Granta 26: Travel
3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1989
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Granta 8: Dirty Realism
3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1983
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The Best of Granta Travel
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Granta 48: Africa
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Series by Bill Buford

Granta 1: New American Writing Granta 2: The Portage to Sa... Granta 3: The End of the En... Granta 4: Beyond the Crisis Granta 5: The Modern Common... Granta 6: A Literature for ... Granta 7
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“In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.”
― Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
tags: cooking, easy, learning, lifetime, simplicity
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“You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.”
― Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
tags: busy, calm, modern, pace, traditional-work
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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, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
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