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Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
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Bill Buford

Martin, I stand with ISRAEL's review

Oct 28, 2020

did not like it

A writer for the New Yorker magazine goes to Lyon, France to learn French cooking.

This long boring story tells how the author uproots his family to hopefully learn French cooking on the job. After finding he isn鈥檛 exactly welcomed in any of the Lyon鈥檚 restaurants, he decides to enroll in a famous cooking school. The author graduates by the skin of his teeth and finds a job.

We then explore the wonders of French cooking. We learn how to cook testicles, duck bladder. and pig blood 馃└ pudding. Yuck. Also, we learn that the French cook with lots of butter and fat. Double yuck 馃あ. This is the wonderful French cooking I have heard of?

Then we have the debate. Did French cooking evolve from Italy. On and on we go to find out the true beginning of France鈥檚 cooking. I never really found the answer.

Skip the book.

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