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26 September 2020

9:00 AM

26 September 2020

9:00 AM

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking Bill Buford

Cape, pp.432, 18.99

You can’t say he didn’t warn us. In the final sentence of his previous book, Heat, a joyously gluttonous exploration of Italian gastronomy, Bill Buford announced that he would be crossing the Alps: ‘I have to go to France.’ And here he is, in Dirt, another rollicking, food-stuffed entertainment, determined to unearth, as it were, the secrets of haute cuisine.

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