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 opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
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 woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.” — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
