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The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Almost Animal Anticipated Big Birds Bright Earth Feeling Forest Houses Loud Most Noisy Openness Plant Population Rain Rio River Sky Startling Sudden Very Wide Would

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The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Buildings Chrysler Dozen Empire Empire State Get Hitchcock Made Magnificent Other Rope Skyline State Structures Up Window You

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Tuscan sausages are smaller than their American cousins, each one demarcated with a string, a graceful loop drawn tightly into a knot - looping and tightening, looping and tightening, a symmetrically floppy, aesthetically appealing rhythm.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Aesthetically American Appealing Cousins Drawn Each Each One Graceful Knot Loop Rhythm Sausages Smaller String Than Tightly

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The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Black Classic Fat Garlic Inspired Italy Lots Made Meat Northern Pepper Pig Salt Up

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Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Bird Call Fat Inside Like Mold Most Onto Out Pigeon Plate Recipes Then Turned Vegetable Which

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Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Cooked Crust Fact Gets Hardy In Fact Nutty Properly Winter

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Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Ate Basic Changed Confidence Duck Eat Else Expectation Find Hundred Hundred Years Now Recipe Restaurant Served Since Someone Tomorrow Tour Will Years Years Ago You Yourself

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For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Always Assumed Cook Country Felt Food France Get Going How Knew Learn Needed Over Paris Reasons Understand

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Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Discovery Exceptionally Fact Fears In Fact Incompetent Itself Seems Unusual Visitors Want

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Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Campfire Developed Dogs Emotions Evolutionary Eyebrows Heads Important Most Outset Packages Right Single Those Trait Warm Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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