Bill Buford Quotes
- Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family,…
- The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.
- Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It…
- You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain…
- The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.
- 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 six…
- The crowd is not us. It never is.
- In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'
- 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…