In October 2007, his article titled "Extreme Chocolate: The Quest for the Perfect Bean" was published in The New Yorker.
Subsequently, Buford started working on a book on French cuisine. Over the course of the book, his skills improve and he is able to butcher a hog and work many stations in the restaurant he traveled to Italy to meet cooks and chefs who were crucial to Batali's early culinary development, as Buford worked and lived in some of the places Batali honed his craft.
īuford began his time at Babbo in a variety of roles including dishwasher, prep cook, garbage remover and any other role demanded of him. He met Batali at a dinner party and asked whether he would take on Buford as his "kitchen bitch". Buford's premise is that he considered himself a capable home cook and wondered whether he had the skills to work in a busy restaurant kitchen. Heat (2006) is Buford's account of working for free in the kitchen of Babbo, a New York City restaurant owned by chef Mario Batali. His book, based on years of exhaustive first-hand research as an 'outsider'-in terms of both his background and his position as a member of the journalistic community-is considered by some to be one of the great social-research documents.
His chief thesis is that the traditional sociological account of crowd theory fails to understand the often complex problem of football violence as a particularly English working-class phenomenon. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979.īuford is credited with coining the term " dirty realism".Īmong the Thugs (1991) is presented as an insider's account of the world of (primarily) English football hooliganism. He remained in England for most of the 1980s.īuford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Southern California, attending the University of California, Berkeley from 1973 to 1977, before moving to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar until 1979. Buford is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Among the Thugs Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cookingīill Buford (born 1954) is an American author and journalist.
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