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Bill Buford’s Profile of Mario Batali, the boisterous chef and restaurateur who became wildly popular by changing the way people think about Italian cooking in America.
Bill Buford , a former fiction editor at The New Yorker , is the author of “ Among the Thugs ,” “ Heat ,” and “ Dirt .”
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Bill Buford’s Profile of Mario Batali, the boisterous chef and restaurateur who became wildly popular by changing the way people think about Italian cooking in America.
Bill Buford spends time with the singer, whose songs aren’t rock and roll, or blues, or country, but are primarily about love and loss.