Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

by Bill Buford

Book Overview

"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

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307455807
• ISBN13: 9780307455802
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"