About Bill Buford
William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism." Buford, Bill (January 23, 2018). "The First Time I Met Paul Bocuse". Buford's premise is that he considered himself a capable home cook and wondered whether he had the skills to work in a busy restaurant kitchen.
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