GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR by | | We meet the cast of characters central to Buford's culinary and cultural education: the chefs — including the Pope of French cuisine, Paul Bocuse — and the simple boulanger, Bob, who owns the bakery below his apartment and with whom Buford does his first culinary internship. And that's when he realizes it's time to go. Planning to stay six months, they wound up living in the city, renowned for its gastronomy, for several years, during which Buford worked for a baker, gained admission to an acclaimed cooking school, and toiled among the staff of a famous restaurant. “All comedians are slightly amazed when anything works.” So writes Seinfeld in this pleasing collection of sketches from across his four-decade career. But I am glad Buford stayed as long as he did. Individual Take Mathieu, a 15-year-old aspiring chef who arrives eager for his internship. But there's a lot more to Dirt than tales of kitchen struggles. • Trump knew—and did nothing about it. Who is shaving on the plane? ‘Dirt’ Review: The Gift of Good Soil A put-upon outsider in a French kitchen remembers being happy not knowing what a fricassee was. by Advertise Well, the sauces will. An Amazon Best Book of May 2020: It seems like a crazy idea to pick up stakes from a comfortable life in New York and move your wife and three-year-old twins to a city in France (not Paris) to look for a job in a restaurant. Privacy Policy The first piece in this collection, laid out sentence by sentence as if for a teleprompter, is a bit about being left-handed, which comes with negative baggage: “Two left feet. It’s free and takes less than 10 seconds! Buford at La Mère Brazier, Lyon, in 2010. DIRT is Bill Buford's tale of learning to become a French chef by living and training in Lyon. dirt adventures in lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of french cooking. I feel he truly took me to the heart of French cuisine. Dirt has some of the same ingredients: Buford is out of his comfort zone and wants to try his hand in the kitchen alongside the best in the industry. ", That soldier, says Buford, recognized that cuisine "protects us in our humanity.". / • Jerry Seinfeld BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR It might make more sense if you are Bill Buford, author of Heat, the 2006 book that did for Italian food what, frankly, Dirt will do for French cuisine. Lyon is a city that creates chefs, says Buford, and he thinks he knows why: Everything the Lyonnais eat is grown right around them.