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What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Answer Born Crushed Dutch Even Here Island Mainly Million Million People More New New York Onto Originally People Settled Seven Straightforward Than Were Who York

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Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Developer Estate Given Means Park Real Real Estate Residents Samuel Square Surrounding Years Years Ago

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The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.

~Bill Buford

Topics: America Reality Stupidity

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The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Birthday Cold Dinner First Friends Glimpse Had Him Invited January Mario Me Myth Night Saturday Saturday Night

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I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Cook Ended Hold My Own Own Restaurant Up Wanting

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When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Across Bits Burned Burns Covered Deep Finger Forehead Got Hair Hot Luckily Melted Off Reaching Scars Tip Top Ugly Wound

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People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Cooks Doing Food Get How Interest Know Knowledge Most Mystery Over People Prepare Wanted You

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If kept dry, a chocolate with a high cacao content, I've discovered, rarely spoils.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Chocolate Content Discovered Dry High Kept Rarely Spoils

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The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

~Bill Buford

Topics: Acceptable Benchmark Cent Content Figure Important Mass Measure Most Per Seventy

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Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.

~Bill Buford

Topics: Amazon Climate Diverse Floor Forest Geographical Introduced Large Likely Louis Most Near Rivers Same Seeds Tree Who Wild

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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