You can almost taste the food in Bill Bufords 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 cooking This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and with a wife and threeyearold twin sons in tow move to Lyon the socalled gastronomic capital of France. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild fiveyear digression from normal life as Buford apprentices at Lyons best boulangerie studies at a legendary culinary school and cooks at a storied Michelinstarred restaurant where he discovers the exacting and incomprehensibly punishing rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor sense of adventure and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture. show more