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Bill Buford
Bill Buford
American Author
Born: 1954
Cooking Food Made Myself People You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now. Bill Buford
You Confidence Yourself Tomorrow Will Expectation Changed Recipe Else Hundred Hundred Years Ate Find Restaurant Eat Someone Tour Since Duck Years Years Ago Now Served Basic
For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed. Bill Buford
Food Country Assumed France Paris Knew Over Learn Felt Understand Always How Get Going Cook Reasons Needed
Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery. Bill Buford
Fears Visitors Seems Fact Exceptionally Unusual Discovery Itself In Fact Want Incompetent
The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. Bill Buford
You Made Other State Chrysler Window Structures Magnificent Empire Empire State Buildings Up Hitchcock Get Rope Skyline Dozen
What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here. Bill Buford
People Crushed Settled Seven Born More Onto Mainly New Island Answer Were Than York Dutch New York Straightforward Who Even Originally Million Million People Here
Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means. Bill Buford
Real Estate Given Park Developer Real Years Years Ago Perpetuity Surrounding Square Estate Samuel Means Residents
When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated. Bill Buford
Ugly Hair Sliced Top Bits Melted Wound Scars Finger Hot Reaching Got Forehead Covered Off Tip Burned Burns Across Deep Luckily
People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over. Bill Buford
Food Knowledge You People Mystery Over Know Most How Doing Get Wanted Interest Cooks Prepare
If kept dry, a chocolate with a high cacao content, I've discovered, rarely spoils. Bill Buford
High Rarely Spoils Dry Content Discovered Chocolate Kept
The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.' Bill Buford
Important Benchmark Seventy Wrapper Per Mass Most Acceptable Content Cent Measure Figure
Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers. Bill Buford
Tree Wild Introduced Seeds Frederick Diverse Rivers Most Likely Frenchman Climate Geographical Amazon Forest Louis Same Who Large Floor Near
Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them. Bill Buford
Food Women Natural Made Possible Invented Network Food Network Cable Audience Them Convinced Who Millions
Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television. Bill Buford
History Personality Television Kitchen Ray Most American The History Of American Television Watched
I just believe people should know what they're eating. Bill Buford
People Believe Eating Know Just Should
The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it's very simple; in practice, the simplicity needs to be learned, and the best way to learn it is to go to Italy and see it firsthand. Bill Buford
Best Needs Cooking Simple Simplicity Practice Way Best Way See About Learn Learned Firsthand Go Italian Italy Very Commonplace
I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it. Bill Buford
Myself Fire Peeling Focused Had Feet Fell Until Caught Beef Been Walked Cut Noticed Bin Garlic Bashed

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