Bill Buford

Jan 20, 2025 | tablemagazine.com | Emma Riva |Charlotte Druckman |Bill Buford

Many love to eat, not all love to cook. Behind the doors of your favorite fine dining restaurant are likely a staff of people sweating, swearing, and frantically dicing onions. Being a chef is not yelling at your colleagues and only finding a moment of peace during a smoke break, but the restaurant industry is a notoriously difficult world that only those who really love food and cooking find themselves in.

Nov 28, 2023 | citylights.com | Bill Buford

"A grotesque, horrifying, repellent and gorgeous book; A Clockwork Orange come to life." –John Gregory Dunne "An important, perhaps prophetic, book ... both exciting and sad at the core.... [Buford is] a superbly talented reporter." – "Brilliant ... one of the most unnerving books you will ever read." – Like Michael Herr or Ryszard Kapuscinski, Buford has witnessed events which can only be compared in intensity to those of a war ... an unflinching look into the festering soul of England ...