![]() Buford's obsession with food and its preparation is genuine, but writers' obsessions are always canny and a book contract makes a useful safety net. She is referred to from time to time as being with him in Italy, but it seems unlikely that she chucked in her editorial job in New York to join the hunt for the perfect bistecca fiorentina. His wife was dismayed when Buford later proposed to move to Italy to cut up animals, but the details of the accommodation they reached aren't clear. Buford gives a muffled impression of midlife crisis: if, as he says, he was tired of all the sitting involved in his previous life as a magazine editor, he could have splashed out on a lectern. At some stage, this mutated into the desire to work for Batali at his three-star restaurant, Babbo. It requires patience, determination and a certain amount of masochism.īuford started out by writing a profile of New York chef Mario Batali for the New Yorker. This approach, like method acting (with which it has points in common), tends to be American. ![]() To find out about professional sports from inside, Plimpton would train and even play with a team. By existential journalism, I mean the total-immersion method pioneered by George Plimpton in the Fifties. ![]()
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