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 Read Quote
If kept dry, a chocolate with a high cacao content, I’ve discovered, rarely spoils. Bill Buford Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
