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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.
A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2006<br>A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2006 <br> Sharing Buford's table talk is a pleasure not to be passed up. -- Michael Redhill, The Globe and Mail<br> <br> 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, terror and pain are all part of the story too. -- The Telegraph <br> A dazzling and funny account of two magnificently mad years. -- The Guardian <br> [Buford] excels at vibrantly colourful descriptive writing. . . . What shines through is the story of Bill Buford falling in love with food, and his passionate journey of learning. -- Vancouver Sun <br> it is clear that Buford can hold his own with anyone in the foodie pedantry stakes.... Heat is a subtle, expletive-heavy, genuine account of a writer's engagement with food.... [an] ultimately nourishing book. -- Times Literary Supplement <br> A messy, brilliant book,
