Dirt : adventures in Lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of French cooking / Bill Buford

Author:: Buford, Bill
Published:: New York : Vintage Books, 2021.
Copyright Date:: ©2020
Edition:: First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Description:: 413 pages ; 21 cm

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Contents:

I. No French -- II. Lyon with twin toddlers -- III. Instruction by Paul Bocuse -- IV. In a historic kitchen -- V. Stagiaire -- VI. Dinner -- VII. Italy (Obviously) -- VIII. France (Finally) -- IX. The gastronomic capital of the world -- X. the greatest adventure in the lives of our family -- Epilogue: Just about everybody dies.

Summary:

"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."--Page 4 of cover.

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ISBN:

9780307455802 (paperback)
0307455807 (paperback)

Note:

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, New York in 2020.

Endowment Note:

Jessica S. Conkling Memorial Libraries Endowment

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