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Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of French cooking

Author:
Bill Buford
Read by:
Bill Buford
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16
Narrator
3
Release Date
May 5, 2020
Duration
16 hours 51 minutes
Summary
“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. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon’s best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen.

With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.
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Profile Avatar Anonymous Jan 2024

It was wonderful. Bill Buford is an excellent narrator. I was sad when the book ended.

Profile Avatar Liz C. Jun 2020

If you liked Bill Buford's book "Heat", you'll Iove "DIRT" ... at least I did. Mr. Buford's narration is charming and his family's adventures in France are fun to hear. I just wish I could have tasted his friend Bob's bread.

Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of French cooking

Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of French cooking

Author: Bill Buford
Read by: Bill Buford
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