Browse by category
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Category: Fiction
What sort of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? This is a book about the experience, and the attractions, of crowd violence.
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Category: Sports and Hobbies
*** Before Running with the Firmcame Among the Thugs- the bestselling classic account of football violence in English football *** Welcome to the world of football thuggery. They have names like Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager, football, the Queen, and themselves. They love E ...Show more
Dirt - Adventures in French Cooking by Bill Buford
Category: Food and Drink
From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.'A romping, chomping, savoury tour de force... Hilarious' Simon SchamaWhat does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his p ...Show more
Dirt - Adventures in French Cooking by Bill Buford
Category: Cook Books
'A chomping, romping, savoury tour de force- by turns hilarious, and seriously thought provoking' Simon SchamaFor most of his adult life, Bill Buford had secretly wanted to find himself in France, in a French kitchen, having mastered the art of French haute cuisine. And where better than Lyon, the most ...Show more
Dirt - Adventures in Lyon As a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking by Bill Buford
Category: Food and Drink
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A highly obsessive, hilariously self-deprecating account of the world of French haute cuisine, from the author of the best-selling modern classic, Heat. In Dirt, Bill Buford--author of the bestselling, now-classic, Heat--moves his attention from Italian cuisine to the food of Franc ...Show more
Dirt - Adventures in Lyon As a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking by Bill Buford
Category: Food and Drink
A hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive account of the author's adventures, in the world of French haute cuisine, for anyone whose ever found joy in cooking and eating food with their family--from the author of the best-selling, widely acclaimed Heat.Bill Buford turns his inimitable attention f ...Show more
Heat by Bill Buford
Category: Food Cooking Wine
An amateur's adventures as a kitchen slave, line cook, pasta-maker and apprentice to a butcher in Tuscany. Heat is the story of an amateur cook surviving - or, perhaps more accurately, trying to survive - in a professional kitchen. Until recently, Bill Buford was an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home ...Show more
Heat by Bill Buford
Category: Food and Drink
"Heat is the story of an amateur cook surviving - or, perhaps more accurately, trying to survive - in a professional kitchen. ntil recently, Bill Buford was an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook. His meals were characterized by two incompatible qualities- their ambition and his inexperience at p ...Show more
Heat An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
Category: Food and Drink
A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created and ruled by superstar chef Mario Batali. Finally realizing a long-held desire to learn first-hand the experience of resta ...Show more
The Best American Travel Writing 2010 by Bill Buford
Category: Fiction
Edited by "The New Yorker"'s Bill Buford, the pieces collected here "prove that a restless, intrepid spirit isn't unwelcome to American readers" ("New York Times Book Review").
The Physiology of Taste - Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin; M. F. K. Fisher (Translator); Bill Buford (Introduction by)
Category: Popular Science | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A delightful and hilarious classic about the joys of the table, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print ever since, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's masterpiece is a historical, philosophical, and epicurean colle ...Show more
Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra by Bill Buford
Category: Art and Design
Beauty and the beasts: Walton Ford s sinister wildlife scenes At first glance, Walton Ford s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a complex anddisturbingly anthropomorphic universe, fu ...Show more