Food Quotes by Bill Buford

“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.”

— Bill Buford

The crowd is not us. It never is.

— 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.'

— Bill Buford

“I stood in the doorway of one room, lost in a meditation of the house's recurring habits. People had made love here, sweated through…

— Bill Buford

“This was a mouth that had suffered many slings and arrows along with the occasional thrashing and several hundredweight of tobacco and Cadbury's milk…

— Bill Buford

“If you’re cooking with love, every plate is a unique event—you never allow yourself to forget that a person is waiting to eat it:”

— Bill Buford

“All this intelligent and careful work revealed a man of great forethought. Yet you could see in Mr. Wicks's eyes--as he stood in the…

— Bill Buford

“I was taught how to tie up the loin with a butcher's looping knot and was so excited by the discovery that I went…

— Bill Buford

“It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often in conditions…

— 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…

— Bill Buford

“I didn't want to be a chef: just a cook. And my experiences in Italy had taught me why. For millennia, people have known…

— Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

— Bill Buford

“I was surprised by what I found; moreover, because I came away with a knowledge that I had not possessed before, I was also…

— Bill Buford

“It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home: someplace, anyplace, disorienting enough to make him notice…

— 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.…

— Bill Buford