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Bill Buford

Biography

Bill Buford

Bill Buford has been a writer and editor for The New Yorker since 1995. Before that he was the editor of Granta magazine for 16 years and, in 1989, became the publisher of Granta Books. He is also the author of AMONG THE THUGS (Norton, 1992). He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, grew up in California, and was educated at UC Berkeley and Kings College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for his work on Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica Green, and their two sons.

Bill Buford

Books by Bill Buford

by Bill Buford - Memoir, Nonfiction

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 (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.