Heat

It’s a brilliant book, a high-brow kitchen soap opera * Daily Telegraph *I lingered over every sentence like a heavily truffled risotto – Anthony BourdainI have never read a funnier or more authentic account of the making of a serious cook. Give Mr Buford three stars – Peter MayleA dazzling and fun account of two magnificently mad years * Guardian *With an endlessly inquisitive mind writes with great humour … I suspect it might become a kitchen classic. It deserves to – Ray Connelly * Daily Mail *Obsessive, compulsive, sometimes funny, sometimes scholarly and always carefully detailed… he presents the foul-mouthed energy of the kitchen, all fear and weirdness, in the flat, careful detail of a good New Yorker piece - but brilliantly timed and structured as you’d expect from an editor like Buford, to give life to all that fact * Scotsman *Heat is a book about obsession, written by a man in the grip of one. It is fuelled by food, but food is not its only subject - love, sex, comradeship and terror and pain are all part of the story too – Carolyn Hart * Sunday Telegraph *Now and again a book comes along that deserves the massive hype that goes with it…this book is an incredible celebration of life, humour, passion and devotion to a cause * Sunday Express *There are many fine books on food, but Buford’s insane culinary enthusiasm has resulted in a work that is by some distance the best about life among the professionals – Christopher Hirst * Independent *This book will make you hungry - hungry for a follow-up, hungry for good writing in general and, of course, hungry for lunch * GQ *

Bill Buford is a staff writer and European correspondent for the New Yorker, where he was previously the fiction editor for eight years. He was the editor-in-chief for Granta magazine for sixteen years and was also the publisher of Granta Books. He is the author of Among the Thugs. He lives in New York City.