Excerpt
Read this excerpt from best-selling author Bill Buford’s new book “Dirt” about his experiences going to famed cooking school L’Institut Bocuse in Lyon, France.
Bill Buford was the fiction editor of the New Yorker for eight years. He is now a New Yorker staff writer. He was also the founding editor of Granta and has written two books, Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Advantures as a Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. He lives in New York City with his wife Jessica Green, and their two sons.