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Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
Telling the tale of a family uprooted from New York City to Lyon, France, so Buford can immerse himself into the haute cuisine world there and learn from the best of the best, Dirt is part travel/work memoir, part French culinary history, and part restaurant kitchen expose.
A lush, detailed, and vividly drawn account of esteemed French kitchens, and the culture that makes their grand food possible, Dirt is the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.
"You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford's Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France." -- The Wall Street Journal