Bill Buford frases

• No puedes hacer el trabajo tradicional a un ritmo moderno. El trabajo tradicional tiene ritmos tradicionales. Necesitas calma. Puedes estar ocupado, pero debes mantener la calma.

  Bill Buford

  Needs, Pace, Calm

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• 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

  Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.100, Random House

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• The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

  Bill Buford

  Comprensión, Importante

  Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.293, Random House

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• 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

  Running, Hands, Made

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• En la escuela de cocina no se aprende a manejar el cuchillo, porque sólo te dan seis cebollas y por mucho que te concentres en esas seis cebollas sólo son seis, y no vas a aprender tanto como cuando cortas cien.

  Bill Buford

  School, Cutting, Knives

  Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.67, Random House

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• The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.

  Bill Buford

  Family, Essentials, Ifs

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• Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)

  Bill Buford

  Years, Knives, Bye

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• Una trufa blanca, que en otros lugares podría venderse por cientos de dólares, parecía más fácil de conseguir que algo fresco y verde. Lo que se podía conseguir en el bosque era gratis y equivalía a un diario gastronómico que todo el mundo llevaba en la cabeza. En mayo había espárragos trigueros, rúcula y alcachofas. En junio, lechugas silvestres y ortigas. En julio, cerezas y fresas silvestres. En agosto, bayas del bosque. Septiembre, boletus.

  Bill Buford

  Food, June, July

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• The crowd is not us. It never is.

  Bill Buford

  Multitudes

  Bill Buford (2011). “Among The Thugs”, p.190, Random House

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• 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

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