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

“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 cooki…

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