Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family, a moment of happiness, a child, a father - that we understand the full weight of what we had.
The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it. - Bill Buford
The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.
- Bill Buford
A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from … - Bill Buford
A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from …
The crowd is not us. It never is. - Bill Buford
The crowd is not us. It never is.
Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He op… - Bill Buford
Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He op…
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 millenn… - Bill Buford
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 millenn…
The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do. - Bill Buford
The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.
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
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.
You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are … - Bill Buford
You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are …
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
In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'
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