Bill Buford Quotes

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. … And because it is often by describing the thing lost – a family, a moment of happiness, a child, a father – that we understand the full weight of what we had.
BILL BUFORD

Children Father Literature Understand
The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.
BILL BUFORD

Essentials Family Presence
You don’t learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you’re not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.
BILL BUFORD

Cutting Knives School
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.
BILL BUFORD

Everything Hands Made Running
The crowd is not us. It never is.
BILL BUFORD

Allow Crowds never
In normal life, ‘simplicity’ is synonymous with ‘easy to do,’ but when a chef uses the word, it means ‘takes a lifetime to learn.’
BILL BUFORD

Mean Simplicity Use
The most important knowledge is understanding what you can’t do.
BILL BUFORD

Important Knowledge Understanding
May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.
BILL BUFORD

Cherries May Nettles September Strawberries

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