Bill Buford Inspirational Quotes (6)

The crowd is not us. It never is.

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

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

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

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

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.